And how these merry bells may ring Or with the larum call The burghers forth to watch and ward, But not for my presaging thought, Dream conquest sure or cheaply bought! God is the guider of the field, He breaks the champion's spear and shield, But thou thyself shalt say, When joins yon host in deadly stowre, That England's dames must weep in bower, And now, down winding to the plain, And fit his harp the pomp to sing, 1 This accomplished gentleman, the well-known coadjutor of Mr. Canning and Mr. Frere in the " Antijacobin," and editor of "Specimens of Ancient English Romances," &c., died 10th April 1815, aged 70 years; being succeeded in his estates by his brother, Charles Ellis, Esq., created in 1827 Lord Seaford. |