"Grieve not, my lord; a crown indeed is lost;

What far outshines a crown, we still may boast;

A mind compos'd; a mind that can disdain

A fruitless sorrow for a loss so vain.

Nothing is loss that virtue can improve

To wealth eternal; and return above;

Above, where no distinction shall be known

'Twixt him whom storms have shaken from a throne,

And him, who, basking in the smiles of fate,

Shone forth in all the splendour of the great: