And sealed her vowed affection with her blood:[125]
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Nor will I meanly tax her constancy, }
That interest or obligement made the tye, }
Bound to the fate of murdered monarchy. }
Before the sounding axe so falls the vine,
Whose tender branches round the poplar twine.
She chose her ruin, and resigned her life,
In death undaunted as an Indian wife:
A rare example! but some souls we see