Among the wailings of infernal shores;

Or hides itself beneath the sheltering wings

Of God’s forgiving mercy; while his bones

Moulder unrecked of on the desert sand,

Where never loving woman pours her prayer,

Nor solitary pilgrim hears the sigh

Which mourning nature sends us from the tomb.

New laws now banish from our yearning gaze

The hallowed sepulchres, and envious strip

Their honors from the dead. Without a tomb