The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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Ausiiess, that
dignity combined with tenderness, that
prudent reserve unmixed with haughtiness, that calm
patriotism so modest and yet so heroic, that
couragt
without fierceness, that energy without rashness, that
purity without a spot, that earnest self-denying
Industr}^ that vvise forecast, that prudent economy,
that constellation of high moral qualities, whose mild
light sweetly gilds the gloom of external circumstances,
and makes woman a "spotless form of
beauty," — arms her with power to move the soul, to
wm the affections, to attain the ideal excellence of
*^chiller's Queen Elizabeth of Spain, who moved
" With inborn and unboastful majesty,
Alike from careless levity remote
And a behavior schooled by selfish rules,
Alike removed from rashness and from fear.
With firm and fearless step she ever walked
The narrow path of duty — all unconscious
That she won worship, where she never dreamed
Of approbation"?
Qualities like these can grow to harmonious perfection
by nothiLg less than God in your sour.
Their semblances may be
produced by simple self-