STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE THE THIRD.
“Among many nations was there no King like him.”—Nehemiah.
“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”—Samuel.
Another warning sound! The funeral bell,
Startling the cities of the isle once more
With measured tones of melancholy swell,
Strikes on th’ awaken’d heart from shore to shore.
He at whose coming monarchs sink to dust,
The chambers of our palaces hath trod;
And the long-suffering spirit of the just,