A bird, a man, a loaded gun.
No bird, dead man, thy will be done.
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
At St. Mary le Bone.
Queen Elizabeth.
(By Laureate Skelton.)
Fame blow aloud, and to the world proclaim,
There never ruled such a royal dame!
The word of God was ever her delight,
In it she meditated day and night.
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin, Netherland's relief,
Earth's joy, England's gem, world's wonder,
Nature's chief.
She was and is, what can there more be said,
On earth the chief, in Heaven the second made.
In Harrow Churchyard.
(Ascribed to Lord Byron.)
Beneath these green trees rising to the skies,
The planter of them, Isaac Greentree lies!
A time shall come when these green trees shall fall,
And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.
Surrey, England.