Note 176 — Chapter IX · LITERATURE Wit, Humour, Romance

Of his verse I have not treated. No reader, however, of his fine sonnet on the Duke of Wellington, inscribed in the Stowe album, or of the wistful lyric addressed from the Ægean to his family in the Home Letters, or of the “Bignetta” rondel in the Young Duke, with its Heinesque close, or even of “Spring in the Apennines” from Venetia, can doubt his genuine gift for poetry and metre.