Within this form there dwells a soul as high

As warriors in their battles e’er have proved,

Or patriots on the scaffold.

Vit. Valiant men!

I come to ask your aid. You see me, one

Whose widow’d youth hath all been consecrate

To a proud sorrow, and whose life is held

In token and memorial of the dead.

Say, is it meet that lingering thus on earth,

But to behold one great atonement made,