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Some memories of the heart, some women's names Yet ask your tears. 'Twas at this very place, Massena *, that Cornelia kept till death Her noble mourning; Agrippina too Long wept Germanicus beside these shores. At length the same assassin who deprived Her of her husband found she was at last Worthy to follow him. And yonder isle † Saw Brutus and his Portia bid farewell.

Thus women loved of heroes have beheld The object perish which they so adored. Long time in vain they follow'd in their path; There came the hour when they were forced to part. Portia destroy'd herself; Cornelia clasp'd The sacred urn which answer'd not her cries; And Agrippina, for how many years! Vainly her husband's murderer defied. And wander'd here the wretched ones, like ghosts On wasted shores of the eternal stream,