DEATH AND CHARACTER OF LORD TENTERDEN. 237 



Ode on the Conservatory in the Alcaick metre, of which the last 

 stanza contains the true cause and the excuse of the whole, and this 

 I will now transcribe, 



' Sit fabulosis fas mihi cantibus 

 Lenire curas ; sit mihi floribus, 

 Mulcere mefessum senemque, f 

 Carpere quos juvenis solibam.'' 



15th September, 1830. 



Sir Egerton Bridges, in a poem privately printed 1831, entitled 

 " Modern Aristocracy/' has the following address to Lord Ten- 

 terden : 



O thou, from whose firm course thy steadier heart, 

 No wildering fires would dazzle to depart, 

 By force concenter'd, reason, memory, toil, 

 Who keep'st one pace, nor art. nor hate could foil ! 

 O thou, with whom one task, in boyish days, 

 One friendly rivalry, one aim of praise, 

 One sport, one taste, of summer's suns one shade, 

 One growing theme, by winter's fires essayed. 

 By better hopes and fairer prospects crown'd 

 How wide the lot thy happier age has found; 

 Plac'd at Ambition's summit on the seat, 

 Where Justice, Mercy, Wisdom, Honour meet ; 

 The toil by day, the nightly sleep that draws ; 

 A nation's loud concurrence of applause ; 

 A conscience pure and high, that proudly knows 

 From no base act the lofty grandeur flows. 

 The thought that if the toil intense is pain, 

 For public good thou labour'st not in vain ! 

 Th' assurance, when this scene is clos'd by fate, 

 Honours thy long posterity shall wait ; 

 O what a bright career of just renown, 

 That pays thy virtues with an earthly crown ! 



