Lord Randolph Churchill.

Born, February 13, 1849.
Died, January 24, 1895.

Gone!—like a meteor whelmed in night,

Who should have shone as fame's fixed star!

Unwelcome loss, when sons of light

So few and so infrequent are.

To flare athwart the startled sky,

A prodigy portentous, fills

The vision of the vulgar eye,