At last to haven! Now no English heart

Will willingly forego unfeigned part

In honouring thee, true master of our tongue,

On whose word, writ or spoken, ever hung

All English ears which knew that tongue's best charm.

Not as great Cardinal such hearts most warm

To one above all office and all state,

Serenely wise, magnanimously great;

Not as the pride of Oriel, or the star

Of this host or of that in creed's hot war,