Of most, all mention, memory, thought are past -

But take a slight memorial of the last.

To what famed college we our Yicar owe,

To what fair county, let historians show:

Few now remember when the mild young man,

Ruddy and fair, his Sunday-task began;

Few live to speak of that soft soothing look

He cast around, as he prepared his book;

It was a kind of supplicating smile,

But nothing hopeless of applause the while;