As ye pass by the tomb,
Where my ashes consume,
Oh! moisten their dust with a tear.
12.
May no marble bestow,
The splendour of woe,
Which the children of Vanity rear,
No fiction of fame,
Shall blazon my name,
All I ask, all I wish, is a tear.
As ye pass by the tomb,
Where my ashes consume,
Oh! moisten their dust with a tear.
May no marble bestow,
The splendour of woe,
Which the children of Vanity rear,
No fiction of fame,
Shall blazon my name,
All I ask, all I wish, is a tear.