The following elegiac stanzas are founded on the preceding historical
fact. Macham, having consigned the body of his beloved mistress to the
solitary grave, is supposed to have inscribed on it the following
pathetic lines:--
O’er my poor ANNA’S lowly grave
No dirge shall sound, no knell shall ring;
But angels, as the high pines wave,
Their half-heard ‘_Miserere_’ sing!
No flow’rs of transient bloom at eve,
The maidens on the turf shall strew;
Nor sigh, as the sad spot they leave,
_Sweets to the sweet a long adieu_!
But in this wilderness profound,
O’er her the dove shall build her nest;
And ocean swell with softer sound,
A _Requiem_ to her dream of rest!
Ah! when shall I as quiet be,
When not a friend or human eye
Shall mark, beneath the mossy tree,
The spot where we forgotten lie?
To kiss her name on this cold stone,
Is all that now on earth I crave;
For in this world I am alone--
Oh! lay me with her in the grave.
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~Health.~