8. Behold, O People! thou shalt die!

What art thou better than thy sires?

The hunted deer a weeping eye

Turns on his birthplace, and expires.

9. Lo! as the closing of a book,

Or statue from its base o’erthrown,

Or blasted wood, or dried-up brook,

Name, race, and nation, thou art gone.

10. The stranger shall thy hearth possess;

The stranger build upon thy grave.