POEMS
COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833
XLV. TO THE EARL OF LONSDALE
POEMS
COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833
“Magistratus indicat virum” LONSDALE! it were unworthy of a Guest, Whose heart with gratitude to thee inclines, If he should speak, by fancy touched, of signs On thy Abode harmoniously imprest, Yet be unmoved with wishes to attest How in thy mind and moral frame agree Fortitude, and that Christian Charity Which, filling, consecrates the human breast. And if the Motto on thy ‘scutcheon teach With truth, “THE MAGISTRACY SHOWS THE MAN;” 10 ‘That’ searching test thy public course has stood; As will be owned alike by bad and good, Soon as the measuring of life’s little span Shall place thy virtues out of Envy’s reach.