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MDCCCXL.

ON MORE'S PORTRAIT.

From Holbein's hand, it is the portraiture
Of More, the mild, the learned, and the good;
Trac'd in that better stage of human life,

When vain imaginations, troublous thoughts,
And hopes and fears have had their course, and left
The intellect compos'd, the heart at rest;

Nor yet decay hath touch'd our mortal frame.
Such was the man, whom Henry, of desert
Appreciant alway, chose for highest trust;
Whom England in that eminence approved,
Whom Europe honoured, and Erasmus loved.

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SOUTHEY, Poet Laureate.

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