. . . with a sigh suppress'd
They smile, and turn to rest.

--But he, who here
Unglorious hides, untrain'd, unwilling Lord,
The phantom king of half a year,
From England's throne push'd by the bloodless sword,
Unheirlike heir to that colossal fame;--
How should men name his name,

How rate his worth
With those heroic ones who, life's labour done,
Mark'd out their six-foot couch of earth,
The laurell'd rest of manhood's battle won?
--Not so with him! . . . Yet, ere we turn away,
A still small voice will say,

By other rule
Than man's coarse glory-test does God bestow
His crowns: exalting oft the fool,
So deem'd, and the world-hero levelling low.
--And he, who from the palace pass'd obscure,
And honourably poor,

Spurning a throne
Held by blood-tenure, 'gainst a nation's will;
Lived on his narrow fields alone,
Content life's common service to fulfil;
Not careful of a carnage-bought renown,
Or that precarious crown:--

Him count we wise,
Him also! though the chorus of the throng
Be silent: though no pillar rise
In slavish adulation of the strong:--
But here, from blame of tongues and fame aloof,
'Neath a low chancel roof,

--The peace of God,--
He sleeps: unconscious hero! Lowly grave
By village-footsteps daily trod
Unconscious: or while silence holds the nave,
And the bold robin comes, when day is dim,
And pipes his heedless hymn.

_Timoleon_; was invited from Corinth by the Syracusans (B.C. 344) to be
their leader in throwing off the tyranny of the second Dionysius. Having
effected this, defeated the Carthaginian invaders, and reduced all the
minor despotisms within Sicily, he voluntarily resigned his paramount
power and died in honoured retirement.

_He also_; In 1556 the Emperor Charles V gave up all his dominions,
withdrawing in 1557 to Yuste;--a monastery situated in a region of
singular natural beauty, between Xarandilla and Plasencia in Estremadura.
He died there, Sep. 21, 1558.

_Loosens the stars_; So Vergil, _Georg_. I., 365:

Saepe etiam stellas vento inpendente videbis
Praecipites caelo labi . . .

_The phantom king_; Richard Cromwell was Protector from Sep. 3, 1658 to
May 25, 1659. After 1660 his life was that of a simple country
gentleman, till his death in 1712, when he was buried at Hursley near
Winchester.

_Unheirlike heir_; See _Appendix_ E.

CHARL