From Africa: Southampton, Fifth October 1880
Sir
Henry
Yule
Yule, Henry
Marcus Paulus Venetus
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
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In the public domain
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
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We pressed to greet him at Southampton Pier,
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From Africa :
Southampton,
Fifth October 1880
.
We pressed to greet him at Southampton Pier,
Not vouching all his deeds and words compact
Of wisdom ; nor that all his censors lacked
Judgment and conscience ; but to honour in Frere
One who feared God and knew no other fear ;
Who, deaf to Party, dared in every act
To face the truth, and wrestle with stern Fact
For England’s weal,—ignoring wrath and jeer
From Faction’s bondsmen, dull to comprehend
The Free, and chapmen in philanthropy
Spiced high with slander.
Be it enough for me
If dear ones, where my dust with dust shall blend,
Write o’er it : eleeison kyrie.
Whate’er his faults, sir bartle called him friend.
Marcus Paulus Venetus
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