Thy portion was to clasp, within thy couch,

The noblest of all women as a wife.

Nor be the tomb of her supposed some heap

That hides mortality: but like the Gods

Honored, a veneration to a world

Of wanderers! Oft the wanderer, struck thereby,

Who else had sailed past in his merchant-ship,

Ay, he shall leave ship, land, long wind his way

Up to the mountain-summit, till there break

Speech forth, 'So, this was she, then, died of old