Just all his dealings, faithful every word,
His passions’ master and his temper’s lord.”
His benevolence was splendid, and known to all men:
“He left to meaner minds the simple deed,
By which the houseless rest, the hungry feed;
His was a public bounty, vast and grand,
’Twas not in him to work with viewless hand.
He the first lifeboat plann’d; to him the place
Is deep in debt—’twas he revived the race.”