Saepe etiam stellas vento inpendente videbis
Praecipites caelo labi . . .
The phantom king; Richard Cromwell was Protector from Sep. 3, 1658 to May 25, 1659. After 1660 his life was that of a simple country gentleman, till his death in 1712, when he was buried at Hursley near Winchester.
Unheirlike heir; See Appendix E.
CHARLES EDWARD AT ROME
1785
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O sunset, of the rise
Unworthy!—that, so brave, so clear, so gay;
This, prison’d in low-hanging earth-mists gray,
And ever-darken’d skies:—
Sad sunset of a royal race in gloom,
Accomplishing to the end the dolorous Stuart doom!
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Ghost of a king, he sate
In Rome, the city of ghosts and thrones outworn,
Drowsing his thoughts in wine;—a life forlorn;
Pageant of faded state;
Aged before old age, and all that Past,
Like a forgotten thing of shame, behind him cast.
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