True priest of God whose glowing utterance stayed
The failing feet, the heart that was afraid,
Pastor and Friend, beloved, most desired,
Thy people called thee, but thy God required.
Tennyson’s epitaph on Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, in Westminster Abbey:
Non hic nauta iacet fortissimus: ossa nivalis
Arctos habet, sed pars non moritura viri
Navigat inmensum auspiciis melioribus æquor
Limina non nostri dum petit alta poli.
[Not here: the white North has thy bones, and thou,