And the strong land shook off its chain—
So was the triumph won!
But woe for earth, where sorrow’s tone
Still blends with victory’s!—She was gone!
THE MEMORIAL PILLAR.
[On the road-side, between Penrith and Appleby, stands a small pillar, with this inscription:—“This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann, Countess-Dowager of Pembroke, for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess-Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d April 1616.”—See notes to the Pleasures of Memory.]
Mother and child! whose blending tears
Have sanctified the place,
Where, to the love of many years,
Was given one last embrace—