While woman’s softer soul in woe dissolved aloud.

XXXIV.

Then mournfully the parting bugle bid

Its farewell, o’er the grave of worth and truth;

Prone to the dust, afflicted Waldegrave hid

His face on earth;—him watched, in gloomy ruth,

His woodland guide: but words had none to soothe

The grief that knew not consolation’s name:

Casting his Indian mantle o’er the youth,

He watched, beneath its folds, each burst that came