This page has been validated.
TASSO'S CORONATION.
221
TASSO'S CORONATION.[1]
A crown of victory! a triumphal song!
Oh! call some friend, upon whose pitying heart
The weary one, may calmly sink to rest:
Let some kind voice, beside his lowly couch,
Pour the last prayer for mortal agony!
A trumpet's note is in the sky, in the glorious Roman sky,
Whose dome hath rung, so many an age, to the voice of victory;
There is crowding to the capitol, the imperial streets along,
For again a conqueror must be crown'd,—a kingly child of song:
- ↑ Tasso died at Rome on the day before that appointed for his Coronation in the Capitol.
