Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/Inscription for a Cottage

by Felicia Hemans

INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE.

Oh! give me, Heaven, whate'er my lot,
Or in the palace, or the cot,
        A noble generous mind;
Exalted in a lowly state,
At fortune's favours not elate,
       To all her frowns resign’d.