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Mrs. Buckley will appear again among Translators. The following verses were inspired by a painting of Cornelia and the Gracchi:

Purest pearls from the sea,

Diamonds outshining the sun,

Sapphires which vie with heaven,

With pride to Cornelia are shown.

Clasping her dark-eyed boys,

Fairer could be no other,

"These my jewels are"

Said the noble Roman mother.