What though no friends in sable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn[557] a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show? 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 be muttered o'er thy tomb? Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dressed, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast:[558] There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, 65 There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings[559] o'ershade The ground, now sacred[560] by thy reliques made.[561] So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. 70 How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be![562] Poets themselves must fall like those they sung, 75 Deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.[563] Ev'n he, whose soul now melts in mournful lays, Shall shortly want the gen'rous tear he pays; Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part, And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart, 80 Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou beloved no more! ELOISA TO ABELARD. * * * * * ELOISA TO ABELARD. Written by Mr. POPE. The second edition, 8vo. London: Printed for BERNARD LINTOT, at the Cross-keys between the Temple Gates in Fleet Street. 1720. The Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard first appeared in the quarto of 1717. The second edition was accompanied by other poems on kindred subjects--"Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Florelio, a Pastoral, lamenting the Death of the late Marquis of Blandford, by Mr. Fenton; Upon the Death of her Husband, by Mrs. Elizabeth Singer; A Ballad, by Mr. Gay,--''Twas when the Seas were roaring;' and Richy and Sandy, a Pastoral on the Death of Mr. Joseph Addison, by Allan Ramsay." The Epistle was reprinted in Lintot's Miscellany in 1720, 1722, 1727, and 1732. In the Miscellany of 1727 there was added for the first time a motto from Prior's Alma: