Like some rich harvest ’neath the fostering care

Of such a parent, whose example spoke

More loudly than his precepts. But ere this,

A few quick sketches, of the chief events

That marked his life, and helped to mould its form,

Shall now be made—though feeble to portray

The bright reality, or give life and form

To inward workings of the subtil mind.

Sir Arthur was the sole surviving child

Of him whose name he bears. The other sons