LEOPOLD DUKE OF BRUNSWICK

 LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.


[Written on the occasion of the death, by drowning, 
of the Prince.
]

THOU wert forcibly seized by the hoary lord of the river,--

Holding thee, ever he shares with thee his streaming domain,
Calmly sleepest thou near his urn as it silently trickles,

Till thou to action art roused, waked by the swift-rolling flood.

Kindly be to the people, as when thou still wert a mortal,

Perfecting that as a god, which thou didst fail in, as man.


 1785.

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