OF ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS. xxxiii 



Thou king of heaven eternal, hear my cry I 

 Thou knowest all my grief and misery : 

 Recal, O God, my wandering soul to Thee, 

 And its shortcomings with Thy grace supply ! 

 O let me die in harbour and at rest, 

 Though I have lived in tempest and in strife : 

 So when I journey hence at Thy behest 

 My death will be less worthless than my life. 

 Vouchsafe in life and death to succour me ; 

 Thou knowest that I trust in nought but Thee. 



Amen and Amen. 



Miserere mei Domine et nunc et in hor mortis. 

 Feb. 24, 1848. 



I have no wish to indulge in any extravagant eulogy of my 

 friend, but I should leave a sad blank in this brief memorial 

 of him if I did not say that his moral qualities were not below 

 his intellectual. His manner might be accounted by some 

 persons cold, and he was certainly not one with whom familiar 

 intercourse and the thorough freedom of friendship were attained 

 rapidly ; but those who knew him well knew that he possessed 

 one of the most gentle of hearts, with a delicate consideration 

 for the feelings of others, and a most grateful sense of any 

 kindness shewn to himself. Above all his sense of honour and 

 propriety was perfect ; nothing shabby or mean could exist in 

 the same place with Leslie Ellis. This is a description which 

 I am convinced that all who knew anything of him will certify 

 to be correct, and I think I need not add more to it: his in- 

 tellectual faculties were undoubtedly his most striking charac- 

 teristics, and the fruits of his intellect, which he was permitted 

 to gather during his brief period of health and activity, remain 

 as an indication of what he might have done ; let it suffice to 

 say that those qualities of which his works can tell but little, 

 were such as we delight to contemplate in union with great 

 intellectual gifts. 



There is one other point which must not be omitted, but which 

 must be treated with delicacy. It would be unjust not to add 

 a word upon the more definitely religious aspect of his charac- 



