THE HISTORY OF THE BEL VOIR HUNT 



What tho' th' embattled hosts could ne'er controul 



Th' unshaken ardour of his dauntless soul ! 



What tho' in vain around his precious head 



Grim war has oft his fiercest terrors spread ! 



Yet here, alas ! in this too fatal part 



His Achillean heel shall rue the dart ; 



The gen'rous hero nature's pow'r shall prove 



In all the meltings of embitter'd love : 



True courage ne'er from nature's ties could save, 



For who so tender as the truly brave ? 



Yet rouze thy noble spirit, thy conscious worth ; 

 Thy offspring claims, thy country calls thee forth : 

 Assert thyself, try all that mortal can, 

 And tho' you feel, yet bear it like a man : 

 So shall her manes rest in balmy ease, 

 So shall again thy big-swoln sorrows cease. 

 And when maturer years their influence shed. 

 When full-blown honours deck thy laurell'd head. 

 Once more thy long-lamented Frances live. 

 And in her children's ripen'd form survive. 

 New joys shall blossom from her sacred urn, 

 And with them peace and happiness return." ^ 



The next few years Lord Granby passed chiefly in West- 

 phaHa, where he won fresh laurels as a commander. To 

 Junius, again, I refer for an account of this time. 



" He gained glory and honour at Warburg. It was the 

 corps under his command who fought and gained the battle 

 of Phillinghausen. He was principally concerned, and acted 

 as became the soldier and the general, at Wilhelmstahl. 

 And towards the end of the war, when the army was so 

 situated that if a rising ground on the left had been taken 

 possession of by the French it might have been attended 

 with the worst consequences, and when the generals destined 

 to lead a corps to occupy it declared the service imprac- 

 ticable, my Lord Granby arose from a sick bed in the 

 middle of the night, assumed the command of the corps, 

 marched with a fever upon him in an inclement season, 

 took possession of the post, and secured the army. This 

 did the soldier ! " ^ 



* The GentlemarCs Magazine^ February, 1760, p. 93. 

 2 Titus, Letters of Junius, p. 140, 



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