LAUDATORY.
Following the inscription to the memory of Albert, Prince Consort, on the Cairn at Balmoral, is the following quotation from the Wisdom of Solomon, iv. 13, 14.
He being made perfect in a short time,
Fulfilled a long time:
For his soul pleased the Lord;
Therefore hasted He to take
Him away from among the wicked.
Could he disclose who rests below,
The things beyond the grave that lie,
We more should learn than now we know.
But know no better how to die.
Dust to its narrow house beneath,
Soul to its place on high;
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die.
His youth was innocent—his riper age
Marked with some act of goodness every day;
And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage,
Faded his late declining years away;
Cheerful he gave his being up, and went
To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.