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SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.
THE CORONATION
OF
INEZ DE CASTRO.
Tableau, où l'Amour fait alliance avec la Tombe; union redoutable de la mort et de la vie!
Madame de Stael.
There was music on the midnight;—
From a royal fane it roll'd,
And a mighty bell, each pause between,
Sternly and slowly toll'd.
Strange was their mingling in the sky,
It hush'd the listener's breath;
For the music spoke of triumph high,
The lonely bell, of death.
