DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6887#0107
WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 75
And these the proud expiring often claim,
Their wealth bequeathing to record their name ;
But humble virtue, stealing to the dust,
Heeds not our lays or monumental bust.
To name her virtues ill befits my grief;
What was my bliss, can now give no relief!
A husband mourns! the rest let friendship tell;
Fame, spread her worth—a husband knew it well.
(71) . Sir Archibald Campbell, Knight of the Bath.-Over a sarcophagus
is the figure of Fame bearing a medallion, with a winged boy holding a wreath
and an expiring torch. Wilton was the sculptor.
" Sacred to the memory of Major-General Sir x^rchibald Campbell, Knight
" of the Bath, M. P. colonel of the 74th Highland regiment of foot, hereditary
" usher of the white rod of Scotland, late governor of Jamaica, governor of fort
" St. George, and commander-in-chief of the forces on the coast of Coromandel,
" in the East Indies. He died equally admired and regretted for his eminent civil
" and military services to his country. Possessed of distinguished endowments of
" mind, dignified manners, inflexible integrity, unfeigned benevolence, with every
" social and amiable virtue. He departed this life March 31, 1791, aged fifty-
" two."
Heu pietas ! heu prisca fides et bellica virtus i
Quando habitura parem!
(72) . George Frederic Handel.-The wall appears to have been hollowed
into a niche, at the back of which is an organ, with an angel hovering before it
on clouds, and in the act of sounding the harp. The figure of the immortal
musician beams with expression, and bears as strong a likeness of the original as
marble can be supposed to convey. He is represented with all the characteristics
of his sublime genius, and as catching the celestial music above him, which he
L 2
And these the proud expiring often claim,
Their wealth bequeathing to record their name ;
But humble virtue, stealing to the dust,
Heeds not our lays or monumental bust.
To name her virtues ill befits my grief;
What was my bliss, can now give no relief!
A husband mourns! the rest let friendship tell;
Fame, spread her worth—a husband knew it well.
(71) . Sir Archibald Campbell, Knight of the Bath.-Over a sarcophagus
is the figure of Fame bearing a medallion, with a winged boy holding a wreath
and an expiring torch. Wilton was the sculptor.
" Sacred to the memory of Major-General Sir x^rchibald Campbell, Knight
" of the Bath, M. P. colonel of the 74th Highland regiment of foot, hereditary
" usher of the white rod of Scotland, late governor of Jamaica, governor of fort
" St. George, and commander-in-chief of the forces on the coast of Coromandel,
" in the East Indies. He died equally admired and regretted for his eminent civil
" and military services to his country. Possessed of distinguished endowments of
" mind, dignified manners, inflexible integrity, unfeigned benevolence, with every
" social and amiable virtue. He departed this life March 31, 1791, aged fifty-
" two."
Heu pietas ! heu prisca fides et bellica virtus i
Quando habitura parem!
(72) . George Frederic Handel.-The wall appears to have been hollowed
into a niche, at the back of which is an organ, with an angel hovering before it
on clouds, and in the act of sounding the harp. The figure of the immortal
musician beams with expression, and bears as strong a likeness of the original as
marble can be supposed to convey. He is represented with all the characteristics
of his sublime genius, and as catching the celestial music above him, which he
L 2