Six feet in earth my Emma lay;
And yet I loved her more—
For it seemed—than till that day
I e'er had loved before.—Wordsworth.
The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable because more natural, and which, according to the different views with which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond all measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.—Hume.
Then changing his theme, came the tune like a wave:
"When haughty invaders defy,
His fame shall be first on the roll of the brave
Who meets them to conquer or die:
His name shall ascend in the prayers of the free"—
"Beware!" said the foe, "we are strong;
The minstrel is safe, but another than he
Might have paid with his life for his song!"
—Dr Charles Mackay.
Like a bridegroom from his room,
Came the hero from his prison to the scaffold and the doom;
There was glory on his forehead, there was lustre in his eye,
And he never walked to battle more proudly than to die;
There was colour in his visage, though the cheeks of all were wan,
And they marvelled as they sam him pass,—that great and goodly man.
—W. E. Aytoun.
The severity of His punishment, when contrasted with the deficiency of the evidence on which He was condemned, might indeed be supposed to excite some degree of sym-
