The In Memoriam verses are scarcely so good, I will, therefore, only quote the first and the last:—
RICHMOND, 1856.
I HOLD it truth, when I recall
Last London's season's joyous spell,
'Tis better to have danced not well,
Than never to have danced at all.
* * *
The season's past; alone at Basle
I sit; but still, as truth I tell,