[57] Vide Annotation from Quarterly Review, p. 62.
TO THE MEMORY OF
GENERAL SIR E—D P—K—M.[58]
Brave spirit! mourn’d with fond regret,
Lost in life’s pride, in valour’s noon,
Oh, who could deem thy star should set
So darkly and so soon!
Fatal, though bright, the fire of mind
Which mark’d and closed thy brief career,
And the fair wreath, by Hope entwined,
Lies wither’d on thy bier.