...By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour 'd, and by strangers mourn'd ! What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for...What though no weeping loves thy ashes grace, Nor polish 'd marble emulate thy face ? What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallow'd dirge...

...foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned ! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour,...woe To midnight dances, and the public show ? What tho' no weeping Loves thy ashes grace, Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face ? 1 I venture to take "...

...the dead. The Giaour. BYRON. They truly mmini, that mourn without a witness. Mirza. K, BARON. What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for...mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show ! To the Meviory of an Unfortunate Lady. POPE. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. Kifht Thoughts....

...foreign hands thy humble grave adorn 'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour,...about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the publick show? What tho' no weeping Loves thy ashes grace, Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face? What...

...adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What, tho' no friends in sable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And...woe To midnight dances, and the public show? What, tho' no weeping Loves thy ashes grace, Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face? 60 What, tho' no sacred...

...composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned ! What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And hear ahout the mockery of woe, To midnight dances and the public show ! What though no weeping Loves...

...composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned! What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for...What though no weeping loves thy ashes grace, Nor polished marble emulate thy face? 60 What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallowed dirge...

...sea." 45-46 This recalls Pope's "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady," lines 55-58: What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour,...mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show? 47-49 For the idea of departed spirits dwelling in the clear water, compare Poe's early poem, "The...

...dust." This unfortunate woman will not even have friends around her to pretend to mourn her loss: What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for...mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show? 3 Catherine obviously has not absorbed the meaning of the line she memorized because she cannot distinguish...

...1.SM Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 72. See also Schoonmaker, "As Though It Were unto the Lord." 2. "And to bear about the mockery of woe / To midnight dances and the public show" (Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717], 57). 3. "Am I not a man and a brother?"...