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If he falls — like the warrior he falls on his duty, 



Whilst his country shall hail him and angels approve; 



If he conquers — he wins from the bright hand of beauty 

 The wreath wove by Liberty, Friendship, and Love. 



Sir J. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, March 21, 1813. 



I heartily wish I could see your pictures or any 

 thing that belongs to you ; but this year you must 

 be Mahomet, and / the mountain, — another year 

 we will try to reverse the matter. I have no recol- 

 lection of the picture you mention at Capo di 

 Monte : that collection was in such dirt and confu- 

 sion (all on the floor) that we saw it to disadvantage. 

 Pray is the white speck (indicating light) on the 

 pupil of the eyes ? Andrea del Sarto I think never 

 put it; — but he might, perhaps, hi copying. Lady 

 Rockingham had a fine Cornelius Jansen without 

 that speck. Is it usually omitted by him ? 



My wife answers for Miss Coke, and sends you 

 in return what, I think, is not unworthy even of your 

 verses; because, like them, it is an effusion of a 

 good heart. I subjoin an epigram on Holkham, 

 which was sure of pleasing my fair young friend, 

 who is worthy of her father, — I need say no more 

 for her. 



Leicester, high priest of fortune and of taste, 

 Raised fairy scenes amid the desert waste : — 

 Holkham's chief grace owns not his magic rod ; 

 " An honest man's the noblest work of God." 



J. E. Smith. 



