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BUST AND PORTRAIT AT WENTWORTH.
This bust, which beautifully doth relateWhat heav'n's beloved are born to do and be;
These lines, these hues, which long shall renovate
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Are all, Fitzwilliam! that remain of thee.
The steward of the trampled poor is gone!
The prince of charity hath bow'd to fate!
The godlike friend of him that wanteth one,
Finds good deeds done on earth his best estate.
How long for thee God bade his angel wait!
O reverend brow! thou conquerest Envy's frown,
And dead, half-humanizest Faction's hate;
As when a poet of time-tried renown
Casts o'er the world he left the light of suns gone down.
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