Center Elizabeth----From the Same Poem

See in Hume’s History, the death of that Queen.

“O mark, where GLORIANA lies!—behold! “On the cold pavement for the jewell’d throne! “Mark, as the soothing friend, or to her ear, “In wily humour creeping, the base speech “Of adulation breathes!—Dread sovereign queen! “Imperial Mistress! Arbitress of Earth! “Mark, if the Goddess, at the alluring sound, “Unveil her sorrowing eye!—Mark if the pride “Of empire, glistening on her crown, adorn “Her brow’s wan horror!—if a nation’s prayer “Gladden her heart!—Stern at her bosom hang, “Bath’d in her blood, and twisted with the strings “Of life, the inexorable Fiends of Woe!