Book 2 — TO LORD STANHOPE[89:1]
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TO LORD STANHOPE[89:1]
ON READING HIS LATE PROTEST IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
['MORNING CHRONICLE,' JAN. 31, 1795]
Stanhope! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name! Thou shalt be bless'd and lov'd, when in the dust Thy corse shall moulder—Patriot pure and just! And o'er thy tomb the grateful hand of Fame Shall grave:—'Here sleeps the Friend of Humankind!' 5 For thou, untainted by Corruption's bowl, Or foul Ambition, with undaunted soul Hast spoke the language of a Free-born mind Pleading the cause of Nature! Still pursue Thy path of Honour!—To thy Country true, 10 Still watch th' expiring flame of Liberty! O Patriot! still pursue thy virtuous way, As holds his course the splendid Orb of Day, Or thro' the stormy or the tranquil sky!
One of the People.
1795.