LETTER AND VERSES RECEIVED BY MY 

 SISTER-IN-LAW FROM THE LATE DUKE 

 OF ARGYLL, KG. 



' Argyll Lodge, Kensington : July 14, 1896. 



' Dear Lady Lilford, — May I ask your kind 

 acceptance of some lines I lately wrote on your 

 husband's most lamented death ? 



' Yours very sincerely, 



' Akgyll.' 



JUNE 1896. 



Tears fall for one whom I have never seen, 

 Whose happy accents I have never heard ; 



Yet one whose spirit ever moved with mine, 

 In watchful record of each tuneful bird. 



Round that fair sea whose sunlit classic shores, 

 Send forth their millions through the vernal 

 air, 



He ranged in youth to hail aerial bands 



That fly, and light, and sing, and nestle there. 



