"And thou, to whom thy KYMBER tunes this strain,
" If strain like this may reach thy nicer ear,
"O deign in mine thy country's voice to hear,
" Which never to a WODEHOUSE call'd in vain!
"By the proud honours of thy martial crest,
" The trophied tombs where thy fam'd fathers rest,
"By Lacy's, Clervaux' , Hunsdon's, Armine's name,
" By Manhood's, Glory's, Freedom's, Virtue's praise,
"Wake the high thought, the lofty spirit raise,
" And blazon thy hereditary fame.
"That fame shall live, whilst Pride's unrighteous power,
" The pageant of an hour,
"Fades from the guilty scene, and sinks in night:
" That fame shall live, and spread its constant rays,
"Warm like the blessed sun with genial light;
" Whilst Vice and Folly spend their baleful blaze,
"As meteors, glaring o'er a troubled sky,
" Shoot their pernicious fires, amaze, and die. "