Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher?
In the same spirit, but superior in tone and quality, is the following, the authorship of which is unknown, "on a poor but honest man:"
Stop, reader, here, and deign to look
On one without a name,
Ne'er enter'd in the ample book
Of fortune or of fame.
Studious of peace, he hated strife;
Meek virtues fill'd his breast;
His coat of arms, "a spotless life,"
"An honest heart" his crest.