The Favours of Fortune I once hop'd to gain, <br />And often invok'd her, but ever in vain. <br />She despis'd my Addresses, which gave me such Grief, <br />I flew to the Muses, in Hopes of Relief. <br />Ah Wretch that I was! I might very well know, <br />'Twas the Method to make her for ever my Foe. <br />They laugh'd at the Goddess, and bid me despise her; <br />But Time and Experience have made me grow wiser. <br />This unhappy Mistake I resolve to repair. <br />O Fortune! thy Votaries must persevere.<br /><br />Mary Barber<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-resolution-4/
