But she appears! Verona sees her shorn

Of all her beams—while nations gaze and mourn—750

Ere yet her husband's ashes have had time

To chill in their inhospitable clime;

(If e'er those awful ashes can grow cold;—

But no,—their embers soon will burst the mould;)

She comes!—the Andromache (but not Racine's,

Nor Homer's,)—Lo! on Pyrrhus' arm[349] she leans![ew]

Yes! the right arm, yet red from Waterloo,

Which cut her lord's half-shattered sceptre through,