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 published in the volume of 1832), where Cleopatra calls on the name of Antony, must set all doubt at rest on the subject. In the earlier piece Antony is the speaker, and he thus bids his mistress a tragic farewell:

"O Cleopatra! fare thee well, We two can meet no more; This breaking heart alone can tell The love to thee I bore. But wear thou not the conqueror's chain Upon thy race and thee; And tho' we ne'er can meet again Yet still be true to me: For I for thee have lost a throne To wear the crown of love alone.

"Fair daughter of a regal line! To thraldom bow not tame; My every wish on earth was thine, My every hope the same. And I have moved within thy sphere, And lived within thy light; And oh! thou wert to me so dear I breathed but in thy sight!