And looks as with the wild bewildered gaze

Of one to stone converted by amaze,

Yet still with consciousness: and there it stands,

Making a marvel that it not decays,

When the coeval pride of human hands,

Levell'd Aventicum, hath strew'd her subject lands.

"And there—oh sweet and sacred be the name!—

Julia, the daughter, the devoted, gave

Her youth to Heaven: her heart, beneath a claim

Nearest to Heaven's, broke o'er a father's grave.