S.H. 1829 Sir Thomas More: OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL.D. POET LAUREATE, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, OF THE METROPOLITAN RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE.-St. Bernard. WITH PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXIX. 6970 Of More the mild, the learned and the good; And hopes and fears have had their course, and left Nor yet decay hath touch'd our mortal frame. Thine eye serene, significant and strong, Or flash of active fancy, and that mirth The fleshly mould, than when she stampt on thine Her best credentials, and bestowed on thee An aspect, to whose sure benignity Beasts with instinctive confidence could trust, Such as in semblance, such in word and deed To God and man approved. What Englishman, Her cities, and the works and ways of men, Forlorn perhaps, and friendless else, but found A friend in him? What mourners,.. who had seen In that sad cypress ground deposited, Wherein so many a flower of British growth, In foreign earth compress'd,.. but bore away |