Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

23§

ST. MARY RED CLIFF*

The Mary and John, -
900 tons.
The Galiot, - - -
150
The Catharine, — —
140
The Mary Batt, - -
220
The Little Nicholas, -
140
The Margaret, - —
200
The Catharine Boston, -
22
A ship in Ireland, - -
100

" No age nor time can wear out well-won fame;
The stones themselves a fiately work doth mew;
From senseless grave we ground may men's good name j
And noble minds by ventrous deeds we know.
A lantern clear sets forth a candle light.
A worthy act declares a worthy wight.
The buildings rare, that here you may behold
To stirine his bones, deserves a tomb of gold;
The famous fabrick, that he here hath done,
Shines in its sphere as glorious as the Sun.
What needs more words ? the future world he sought,
And set the pomp and pride of this at nought ;
Heaven was his aim, let Heaven be still his station,
That leaves such work for other's imitation."
The fecond in importance is thus inseribed:
** Sir William Penn, knight, born at Briitol,
1621, of the Penns of Penn's-lodge, in the
county of Wilts. He was made a captain at 21 ;
rear-admiral of Ireland at 23 ; vice-admiral of
England at 31 ; and general, in the first Dutch
war, at 32. Whence returning, in 1655, he was
c ho sen