ON READING HIS LATE PROTEST IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS STANHOPE! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name! Thou shalt be bless'd and lov'd, when in the dust Thy corse shall moulder -- Patriot pure and just! And o'er thy tomb the grateful hand of FAME Shall grave: --'Here sleeps the Friend of Humankind!' For thou, untainted by CORRUPTION's bowl, Or foul AMBITION, with undaunted soul Hast spoke the language of a Free-born mind Pleading the cause of Nature! Still pursue Thy path of Honour! -- To thy Country true, Still watch th' expiring flame of Liberty! O Patriot! still pursue thy virtuous way, As holds his course the splendid Orb of Day, Or thro' the stormy or the tranquil sky! ONE OF THE PEOPLE | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INSTANS TYRANNUS by ROBERT BROWNING BOTHWELL: PART 5 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM by WILLIAM BARNES WAITING BY THE GATE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |