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TO THE SAME,

WITH A SILVER SEAL, WHICH HAD BELONGED TO THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, SET IN GOLD.

Let this Domestic Relique prove,
If not your Father's wealth, his love;
Of all his Father once enjoy'd,
The only Relique, not destroy'd;

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Devolving, by unquestion'd claim,
On You—sole Heiress—of our Name.

A Stature, full, compact, erect,—
A Manner, to command respect,—
An Eye, that look'd a friendly joke,—
The frank, but firm Old Briton spoke.

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Well-principled, well-inform'd, well-skill'd,
He dignified the part he fill'd;
Wrought no man's wrong—nor e'er delay'd,
When injur'd right requir'd his aid:
Stern to condemn, tho' slow to wound
The guilt, his keen discernment found;
To fraud inflexible;—yet prone
To mitigate suffering folly's moan;
And spare the criminal, while he gave
To sure conviction all the knave:
By Craft, at once admir'd and fear'd;
By Sense approv'd; to Worth endear'd.

Tho' crush'd by pain, entomb'd he lay,
Ere your eyes open'd to the day,
Myself have heard, on public ground,
Within the passing year's short round,
Surviving evidence proclaim
Spontaneous reverence for his name;

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While thus the cordial suffrage ran,—
“'Twas generous George, the Upright Man!”
How few among the sumptuous shrines,
Where proud mortality reclines,
Boast merit, on that basis rais'd?
So long remember'd?—or so prais'd?