GEORGE HERBERT.

(No. 2.)

1593-1632.

"Religion, dress'd in many a quaint display,

Thou teachest still, in novel antique way.”—BARHAM.

GOOD Country Parson, cheerful, quaint,
E ver in thy life a saint,

O'er thy memory sweetly rise

Rare old Izaak's eulogies,

Giving us, in life-drawn hue,

Each lov'd feature to our view.

Holy Herbert, humble, mild,
E'en as simple as a child,
Ready thy bounty to dispense,
Beaming with benevolence,

E ver blessing, ever blest,

Rescuing the most distrest;

Thy Temple' now is Heaven's bright rest.

HARVEY.

1578-1657.

"HARVEII magnum nomen laudesque manebunt,
Dum in gyris sanguis itque reditque suis."

HIGH place is thine amongst the foremost few,
All, proud discoverers of truths great and new,
Rich benefit conferring on mankind,

Vast store of knowledge adding to the mind.
E xulting Bacon sees in thee a son;

Years yet shall spread thy fame, while the blood

circles on.

Harvey's great discovery of the circulation of the blood, in 1616, may be considered the first fruits of the inductive philosophy of Bacon.

CROMWELL.

1599-1658.

"The sagest of usurpers, Cromwell-
Immortal rebel !"-BYRON.

CHAMPION of English liberties! thy name
Rises mid splendid obloquy and fame.
On thee the guilt of thy great monarch's fate,
M artyr'd to feed thy fierce fanatic hate.

While, 'stead of "Right Divine to govern wrong,"
Extracting good from evils done too long,
Lasting the benefits thou hast design'd,

Leaving sure proof of a wise, lofty mind.

MILTON.

(No. 1.)

1608-1674.

"A genius universal as his theme;
Astonishing as Chaos, as the bloom

Of blowing Eden fair, as Heaven sublime."-THOMSON.

MAJESTIC Bard, what might is thine!
Inspir'd thy song, thy theme divine.
Lovely, as Eden's brightest bowers,
Thy clustering poetic flowers:

Of Paradise's Loss and Gain,

N e'er dream like thine, in such a wondrous strain.

MILTON.
(No. 2.)

1608-1674.

"Milton, whose genius had angelic wings,
And fed on manna."-CowPER.

MIGHTY lord of a thousand tones,*
In thee not one thy lot bemoans;
Lost though the Paradise of sight,
That of fair Eden bursts full bright
On thy strong inward gaze, high strain'd:
Now, too, in thee is 'Paradise Regain'd.'

* Alluding to the Poet's name.-mil, a thousand, ton, tone.

WALTON.

(No. 1.)

1593-1683.

"Give me mine angle; we'll to the river;
I will betray

Tawny finn'd fishes: my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws."-SHAKSPEARE,

WHERE silvery streams in rippling music play,
Angling along their banks, oft would'st thou stray,
Losing thyself awhile in pleasant dreams,-
Those quaintly simple, prose-poetic streams
Of charming colloquy, refreshing, bright,

N e'er read, dear "honest Angler" save with new

delight.

WALTON.
(No. 2.)

1593-1683.

"O who can tell how calm and sweet,

Meek Walton shews thy green retreat."-KEBLE.

WHAT high and calm delight with thee to rove,
A ngling and musing by romantic Dove!
Like thee, from city stir escap'd, to stray,
"To do observance to a morn of May!

Oh, when thou sought'st the quiet banks of Lee,
No Angler's sport e'er match'd thy quaint good

*"Mids. Night's Dream."-i. 1.

company.

BUNYAN.

1628-1688.

"Ingenious Dreamer! in whose well-told tale,

Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail;

Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style,

May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile."-COWPER.

B RIGHT star-like gem of mind sparkling from heaven!
Utterance almost inspir'd to thee was given:

N e'er allegory may with thine compare,
Youth it delights, refreshes age and care;

And, e'en though bursting from a dungeon's gloom,
No flower of genius rare shall longer bloom.

DRYDEN.

1631-1700.

"Dryden taught to join

In varying verse, the full resounding line,

The long majestic march, and energy divine."-POPE.

DEEP rolls on deep in thy majestic line,
Rich music and the stateliest march combine:
Yet, who that hears its high harmonious strain,
Deems not thy genius thou didst half profane ?
Exhausting thy great power of song on themes
Not worthy of its strong effulgent beams.