Near his paternal seat, here buried lies,

The grave, the gay, the witty, and the wise.

Form'd for all parts, in all alike he shin'd,

Variously great! a genius unconfin'd!

In converse bright, judicious in debate,

In private amiable, in publick great:

With all the statesman's knowledge, prudence, art,

With friendship's open, undesigning heart.

The friend and heir here join their duty: One

Erects the busto, one inscribes the stone.

Not that they hope from these his fame should live,

That claims a longer date than they can give.

False to their trusts, the mould'ring busts decay,

And, soon effac'd, inscriptions wear away:

But English annals shall their place supply;

And, while they live, his name can never die.