Which once he wore, and saw the conscious bed,
She saw and with a sigh the robes embraced,
Then on the couch her trembling body cast,
Repressed the ready tears and spoke her last;
'Dear pledges of my love, while heaven so pleased,
Receive a soul of mortal anguish eased.
My fatal course is finished, and I go,
A glorious name among the ghosts below,'
Then kissed the couch 'and must I die,' she said,
'And unrevenged, 'tis doubly to be dead;