love and respect an honest opponent. He was candid,
ingenuous, and truth-loving; and if a historian is such, it matters not
what his political opinions are, for he cannot avoid stating facts that
support the conservative side. His errors, as we deem them, in politics,
arose from the usual causes which mislead men on human affairs,
generosity of heart and inexperience of mankind. He could not conceive,
with an imagination warmed by the heroes of antiquity, what a race of
selfish pigmies the generality of men really are. No man of such an
elevated cast can do so, till he is painfully taught it by experience.
Arnold died of a disease of the heart, which physicians have named by
the expressive words "_angina pectoris_." They were right: it was
anxiety of the heart which brought him to an untimely grave. He died of
disappointed hope, of chilled religious aspirations, of mortified
political expectations of social felicity. Who can estimate the
influence, on so sensitive and enthusiastic a disposition, of the
heart-rending anguish which his correspondence proves he felt at the
failure of his long-cherished hopes and visions of bliss in the Reform
Bill, and all the long catalogue of political and social evils, now
apparent to all, it has brought in its train?

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 20: _History of Rome._ By THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D. London: 1843.
Vol. 3.]

[Footnote 21: Hannibal was born in the year 247 before Christ, or 2092
before this time.]

[Footnote 22: _Virtus_ from _vir_--_exercitus_ from _exerceo_.]

[Footnote 23: Arnold, iii. 89.]

[Footnote 24: _Ibid._ iii. 486, note.]

[Footnote 25: Livy, xxi. 33.]

[Footnote 26: Polybius, iii. 52.]

[Footnote 27: _Ibid._ iii. 54.]

[Footnote 28: "The way on every side was utterly impassable, through an
accident of a peculiar kind, which is peculiar to the Alps. The snows of
the former years _having remained_ unmelted upon the mountains, were now
covered over by that which had fallen in the present autumn, and when
the soldiers feet went through the latter they fell, and slid down with
great violence."--POLYBIUS, iii. 54. This shows the place was within the
circle of perpetual snow; whereas that on the Little St Bernard is much
below it, and far beneath any avalanches.]

[Footnote 29: Polybius, iii. 54.]

[Footnote 30: Arnold, iii. 64, 65]

[Footnote 31: See Arnold's Rome, Blackwood's Magazine, July 1837.]

STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MIL