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So those (the greatest curse I meet below)
Who know me not, may not pretend to know.
Let none of those, who, bless'd with parts above
My feeble genius, still I dare to love,
Doing more mischief than a thousand foes,
Posthumous nonsense to the world expose,
And call it mine: for mine, though never known,
Or which, if mine, I living blush'd to own.
Know all the world, no greedy heir shall find,
Die when I will, one couplet left behind.
Let none of those whom I despise, though great,
Pretending friendship to give malice weight,
Publish my life. Let no false sneaking Peer,
(Some such there are,) to win the public ear,
Hand me to shame, with some vile anecdote,
Nor soul-gall'd Bishop damn me with a note.
Let one poor sprig of bay around my head
Bloom whilst I live, and point me out when dead:
Let it (may Heaven, indulgent, grant that prayer!)
Be planted on my grave, nor wither there:
And when, on travel bound, some rhyming guest

Roams through the churchyard whilst his dinner's

drest,

Let it hold up this comment to his eyes,
Life to the last enjoy'd, Here Churchill lies:
Whilst (oh what joy that pleasing flattery gives!)
Reading my works, he cries, Here Churchill lives."

On "travel bound," a "rhyming guest" stood at the grave in the Dover churchyard, fifty years after this pathetic aspiration. He, too, had lived in defiance of the world's opinions; had written the most masterly satires; had achieved a popularity unattained by any Eng. lish poet since the grave at which he stood received its inhabitant; like him, was now leaving his native country in early manhood, to be brought back dead; and the moral to which he shaped his thoughts, was on "the Glory and the Nothing of a Name." But a Name is not an illusion, when it has been won by any strenuous exertion either of thought or action in an honest purpose. Time's purgatorial fire may weaken the strength of the characters it is written in, but it eats out of them also their mistakes and vices; and BYRON might have had greater hope for the living, and less pity for the dead, at the grave of CHARLES CHURCHILL.

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