Part 30

BURNS.

29. An ample soul, Rockbound and fortified against assaults Of transitory passion, but below Built on a surging, subterraneous fire, That stirs and lifts him up to high attempts.

TAYLOR.

30. His very manners teach to amend, They are so even, grave and holy; No stubbornness so stiff, nor folly To license ever was so light, As twice to trespass in his sight; His look would so correct it when It chid the vice, yet not the men.

BEN JONSON.

31. He thinks, That he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

BUTLER--Hudibras.

32. He keeps his honesty and truth, His independent tongue and pen, And moves in manhood, as in youth, Pride of his fellow-men.

HALLECK.

33. His life doth flow From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirror'd; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

TALFOURD--Ion.

34. He is too costly for every day, You would want another for working days.

Much Ado About Nothing.

35. Strange, that his nobly fashion'd mould, In which a very god might dwell, Should only live to dig for gold, And perish in its narrow cell!

BOWRING.

36. He has no party rage, no sectary's whim; Christian and countryman is all with him.

CRABBE.

37. Valiant he as fire, Showing danger more than ire. Bounteous as the clouds to earth, And as honest as his birth; All his actions they are such As to do no thing too much; Nor o'erpraise, nor yet condemn, Nor outvalue, nor contemn, Nor do wrongs nor wrongs receive, Nor tie knots, nor knots unweave. From all baseness to be free, As he durst love truth and thee.

BEN JONSON.

38. He snuffs far off the anticipated joy, Turtle and venison all his thoughts employ.

COWPER.

39. In his strength The mighty oak has likeness; gentleness In him is like the rosy parasite, The flush Spring gives it wrapping it around With sweetest color and adorning grace. His soul, refined beyond the rustic world, Has yet no city vices. He has kept Its whiteness unprofaned.

W. G. SIMMS.

40. He'll never learn his bark to steer 'Mid passion's sudden, wild career, Nor try at times to tack and veer To interest's gale, But hoist the sheet, unawed by fear Though storms prevail.

HECTOR MACNEIL.

41. A fair example of his own pure creed, Patient of error, pitiful to need, Persuasive wisdom in his thoughtful mien.

MRS. SIGOURNEY.

42. One of that stubborn sort he is, Who if they once grow fond of an opinion, They call it honor, honesty, and faith, And sooner part with life than let it go.