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no GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE both possessed decided military talents were enterprising and intrepid yet neither was remarkable for skill in handling troop under fire This also thev had in common that both after dis- tinguished services perished in arms fighting gallantly and being celebrated as generals of division while living have since their death been injudiciously spoken of as rivalling their great leader in war That they were officers of mark and pretension is unquestion able and Crawfurd more so than Picton because the latter never had separate command and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the art they professed -Napier's Peninsular War -Craniate into iUtm erlcgtafsi Stranger thou art standing now On Colonos' sparry brow All the haunts of Attic ground Where the matchless coursers bound Boast not through their realms of bliss Other spot as fair as this Frequent down this greenwood dale Mourns the warbling nightingale Nestling mid the thickest screen Of the ivy's darksome green Or where each empurpled shoot Drooping with its myriad fruit Curled in many mazy twine Blooms the never-trodden vine By the gods' protecting power Safe from sun and storm and shower Bacchus here the summer long Revels with the goddess throng Nvmphs who erst on Nyssa's wild Reared to man the rosy child