and by blood allied,
Whom most He lov'd, and in whose arms He died.
Friend of all Human-kind! not here alone
(The voice, that speaks, was not to Thee unknown)
Wilt Thou be miss'd,--O'er every land and sea
Long, long shall England be rever'd in Thee!
And, when the Storm is hush'd--in distant years--
Foes on thy grave shall meet, and mingle tears!

[Footnote 1: After the Funeral of the Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES FOX on
Friday, October 10,1806.]

[Footnote 2: Venez voir le peu qui nous reste de tant de grandeur,
&c. Bossuet. Oraison funebre de Louis de Bourbon.]

[Footnote 3: Et rien enfin ne manque dans tons ces honneurs, que
celui a qui on les rend.--Ibid.]

[Footnote 4: Alluding particularly to his speech on moving a new writ
for the borough of Tavistock, March 16,1802.]

THE VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS.

CHI SE' TU, CHE VIENI----?
DA ME STESSO NON VEGNO.
DANTE.

I have seen the day,
That I have worn a visor, and could tell
A tale--------
SHAKSP.

PREFACE.

The following Poem (or, to speak more properly, what remains of it
[Footnote]) has here and there a lyrical turn of thought and
expression. It is sudden in its transitions, and full of historical
allusions; leaving much to be imagined by the reader.

The subject is a voyage the most memorable in the annals of mankind.
Columbus was a person of extraordinary virtue and piety, acting under
the sense of a divine impulse; and his achievement the discovery of a
New World, the inhabitants of which were shut out from the light of
Revelation, and given up, as they believed, to the dominion of
malignant spirits.

Many of the incidents will now be thought extravagant; yet they were
once perhaps received with something more than indulgence. It was an
age of miracles; and who can say that among the venerable legends in
the library of the Escurial, or the more authentic records which
fill the great chamber in the _Archivo_ of Simancas, and which relate
entirely to the deep tragedy of America, there are no volumes that
mention the marvellous things here described? Indeed the story, as
already told throughout Europe, admits of no heightening. Such was
the religious enthusiasm of the early writers, that the Author had
only to transfuse it into his verse; and he appears to have done
little more; though some of the circumstances, which he alludes to as
well-known, have long ceased