IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1729. HERE, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind, For thee the hardy veteran drops a tear, 10 X. ON MR. ELIJAH FENTON.* AT EASTHAMSTED, IN BERKS, 1730. THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: died. *He assisted Pope in his translation of the 'Odyssey.' 10 XI. ON MR. GAY. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. OF manners gentle, of affections mild; And uncorrupted e'en among the great; Here lies Gay.' XII. INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ISAACUS NEWTONUS: QUEM IMMORTALEM TESTANTUR TEMPUS, NATURA, COELUM: MORTALEM HOC MARMOR FATETUR. NATURE and Nature's laws lay hid in night : God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light. XIII. ON DR. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. He died in exile at Paris, 1732. In 1729 his only daughter (who had gone thither to see him) died in his arms, immediately after her arrival. DIALOGUE. SHE. YES, we have lived-one pang, and then we part! HE. Dear shade! I will; Then mix this dust with thine. -O spotless ghost! O, more than fortune, friends, or country lost! Is there on earth one care, one wish beside ? Yes-Save my country, Heaven! -He said, and died. XIV. ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735. IF modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd, And every opening virtue blooming round, Could save a parent's justest pride from fate, Or add one patriot* to a sinking state; *The Duchess of Buckingham was in league with the Pretender and Atterbury's party; therefore Pope uses the word patriot. This weeping marble had not ask'd thy tear, 10 XV. FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. HEROES and kings! your distance keep : ANOTHER, ON THE SAME. UNDER this marble, or under this sill, XVI. ON TWO LOVERS STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING. WHEN Eastern lovers feed the funeral fire, [Lord Harcourt-on whose estate the unfortunate pair lived-fearing the above might be beyond the comprehension of the country people, got Pope to write the following lines, which are inscribed on their monument at Stanton Harcourt, Oxon.] Near this place lie the bodies of JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW, An industrious young man, Were in one instant killed by lightning, THINK not by rigorous judgment seized, |