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;