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With bloodless cheek and vacant glance, Frozen and fix'd in horror's trance; Spell-bound, as every sense were fled, And thought o'erwhelm'd, and feeling dead. And the light waving of her hair, And veil, far floating on the air, Alone, in that dread moment, show She is no sculptured form of woe.

The scene of grief and death is o'er, The patriot's heart shall throb no more: But hers—so vainly form'd to prove The pure devotedness of love, And draw from fond affection's eye All thought sublime, all feeling high; When consciousness again shall wake, Hath now no refuge—but to break. The spirit long inured to pain May smile at fate in calm disdain; Survive its darkest hour, and rise In more majestic energies. But in the glow of vernal pride, If each warm hope at once hath died,