Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.

Born, 1811. Died, July 27, 1892.

Great fighter of lost causes, gone at last!

A meteoric course, by shade o'ercast

Long ere its close, was thine. A star that slips

At brightest into shadow of eclipse,

Leaves watchers waiting for its flaming forth

In a renewed refulgence. Wit and worth,

Satire and sense, courage and judgment keen,

Were thine. What flaw of weakness or of spleen,