26 Bight Hon. Sir M. E. Grant Buff [Jan. 27, 



There is an exceedingly beautiful Greek version of this in the 

 ' Anthologia Oxoniensis ' from the pen of Mr. James Riddell, the same 

 who is described in Principal Sbairp's far too-litttle-known poem on 

 "The Balliol Scholars from 1840 to 1843," which contains such 

 admirable sketches of Clough, Matthew Arnold and Coleridge. 



This noble epitaph, or variants of it, are found in several places, 

 but, so far as I know, its original author has not been discovered. He 

 was surely no mean poet. 



Herrick's epitaph is characteristically graceful : — 



Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light, 

 And weep for me, lost in an endless night, 

 Or mourn, or make a marble verse for me 

 Who writ for many, Benedicite. 



On Shelley's grave in the new Protestant cemetery near the pyramid 

 of Caius Cestius at Eome, Trelawney put the lines from Shake- 

 speare : — 



Nothing of him that doth fade 

 But doth suffer a sea-change 

 Into something rich and strange. 



On his monument at Christchurch, in Hampshire, they have very 

 appropriately put his own lines : — 



He hath outsoar'd the shadow of our night ; 



Envy and calumny, and hate and pain, 

 And that unrest which men miscall delight, 



Can touch him not, and torture not again, 



From the contagion of the world's slow stain 

 He is secure, and now can never mourn 



A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain ; 

 Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn 

 With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. 



On the monument of the Wesleys in Westminster Abbey, Dean 

 Stanley placed not less appropriately the words " God' buries his 

 workmen but carries on his work." 



Excellent too is a sort of general epitaph which he hung up in 

 the Great Abbey : — 



Here's an acre sown indeed, 

 With the richest royal! est seed, 

 Which the earth did e'er suck in, 

 Since the first man died for sin. 



Very good is the epitaph by Lord Houghton, in the same place, 

 upon Charles Buller : — 



Here, amidst the memorials of mature r greatness 

 This tribute of private affection and public honour 

 Records the talents, virtues, and early death of 

 The Right Honourable Charles Buller ; 

 Who, as an independent Member of Parliament 

 And in the discharge of important offices of State, 



