Widow’d, and childless, lamentable state! + 

A doleful sight, among the dead she sate; + 

Harden’d with woes, a statue of despair, + 

To ev’ry breath of wind unmoved her hair; + 

Her cheek still reddening, but its colour dead, + 

Faded her eyes, and set within her head; + 

No more her pliant tongue its motion keeps, + 

But stands congeal’d within her frozen lips; + 

Stagnate and dull, within her purple veins, + 

Its current stopp’d, the lifeless blood remains; + 

Her feet their usual offices refuse; + 

Her arms and neck their graceful gestures lose: + 

Action and life from ev’ry part are gone, + 

And ev’n her entrails turn to solid stone: + 

Yet still she weeps, and whirld by stormy winds, + 

Borne through the air, her native country finds; + 

There, fix’d, she stands upon a bleaky hill, + 

There yet her marble cheeks eternal tears distil. + 