ATTENDANT FAME SHALL BLESS.
The Venerable George Waddington, Dean of Durham, an English divine and writer. Died, July 20, 1869. From a poem read in Cambridge in 1813.
And when in happier days one chain shall bind,
One pliant fetter shall unite mankind;
When war, when slav'ry's iron days are o'er,
When discords cease and av'rice is no more,
And with one voice remotest lands conspire,
To hail our pure religion's seraph fire;
Then fame attendant on the march of time,
Fed by the incense of each favored clime,
Shall bless the man whose heav'n-directed soul
Form'd the vast chain which binds the mighty whole.
Columbus continued till death eager to extend his discoveries, and by so doing to promote the glory of his persecutors.