From op'ning skies may ftreaming glories fhine,
And Saints embrace thee with a love like mine.
May one kind grave unite each hapless name,
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Then, ages
hence, when all
my woes are o'er, 345
When this rebellious heart shall beat no more;
If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings
To Paraclete's white walls and filver springs,
O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads,
And drink the falling tears each other sheds; 350
Then fadly fay, with mutual pity mov'd,

"Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!"
From the full choir when loud Hofannas rife,
And fwell the pomp
of dreadful facrifice,
Amid that scene if fome relenting eye

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Glance on the stone where our cold relicks lie,
Devotion's felf shall steal a thought from heav'n,
One human tear fhall drop, and be forgiv'n.
And sure if fate some future bard shall join
In fad fimilitude of griefs to mine,

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VER. 343. May one kind grave, etc.] Abelard and Eloïfa were interred in the fame grave, or in monuments adjoining, in the Monastery of the Paraclete: he died in the year 1142, fhe in 1163. P.

Condemn'd whole years in abfence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more;
Such if there be, who loves fo long, fo well;
Let him our fad, our tender story tell ;
The well-fung woes will footh my penfive ghost,
He best can paint 'em who fhall feel 'em moft.

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