• Grief hath been known to turn the young head gray,—
    To silver over in a single day
    The bright locks of the beautiful, their prime
    Scarcely o’erpast; as in the fearful time
    Of Gallia’s madness, that discrownèd head
    Serene, that on the accursèd altar bled
    Miscalled of Liberty. O martyred Queen!
    What must the sufferings of that night have...