Peace to the Men, who these high honours claim,
Health to their souls, and to their mem'ries fame:
Be it my task, and no mean task, to teach
A rev'rence for that worth I cannot reach;
Let me at distance, with a steady eye,
Observe, and mark their passage to the sky,
From envy free, applaud such rising worth,
And praise their heav'n, tho' pinion'd down to earth.