THE TWO PITTS. THESE lines were sent me in November, 1861, by the Rev. Thomas Pascoe, of St. Hilary's, Marazion, Cornwall, who states in his letter that he was born in 1788, and that he remembers hearing them recited "when quite a boy." I do not think that I ever saw them in print. GREAT Chatham, who from humbled France The first of statesmen stood confessed, And nations owned the claim. Yet by one act he weaker made S. ENIGMA BY WILLIAM PITT, AFTERWARDS EARL OF CHATHAM. (From the Papers at Chevening.) To discover the name that my verse would express, A letter you'll first from the alphabet guess; Which letter by this may be easily known— Its shape is the very reverse of your own. Say next, if a fair one too rashly exposes A beauteous complexion of lilies and roses, What the beams of the sun will infallibly do To deaden their lustre and sully their hue. Add to these, what induces the amorous swain To persist in his vows, though received with disdain; What comforts the wretch whom his fortunes oppress, And arms him with courage to bear his distress. These join'd all together will make up the name Of a family known in the annals of fame : 'Tis the name of a Countess, whose portrait in vain My Muse would attempt in so humble a strain. Should I say she's the fairest of all the fair sex, Your judgment it only would serve to perplex; For, though known and acknowledged by all to be true, Your manners bespeak it a secret to you. VALENTINE TO THE HON. MARY C. STANHOPE, (DAUGHTER OF LORD AND LADY MAHON.) 1851. HAIL, day of Music, day of Love, Myrtles and roses, doves and sparrows, Unnumbered lasses, young and fair, From Bethnal Green to Belgrave Square, With cheeks high flushed, and hearts loud beating, Await the tender annual greeting. The loveliest lass of all is mine Good morrow to my Valentine! Good morrow, gentle Child! and then Again good morrow, and again, Good morrow following still good morrow, Without one cloud of strife or sorrow. In jest our homages to-day Shall come to claim, no more in jest, It shall be so. The Muse displays St. Valentine's Day, 1851. T. B. MACAULAY. The statue of Mr. Pitt in Hanover Square. CHARLES V. AND THE TWO CLOCKS. 1851. W. Stirling, Esq., of Keir, to Lord Mahon. [Extract.] Park Street, May 6, 1851. Robertson says that Charles V., finding that he could make no two of his clocks at Yuste go alike, remarked that perhaps he had erred in attempting to compel uniformity in the more difficult matter of religion. This story, which must evidently have come from a Protestant source, I cannot find in any of the writers whom he refers to at the bottom of the page, nor have I been able to trace it to any of the historians contemporary with Charles or Philip II. Can you assist me to discover it? I should like to ask Mr. Macaulay, who knows where everything is to be found; but I do not know him sufficiently to trouble him with a letter. The earliest book in which I have ever read it is in a 'Description of the Gardens of the Loo,' written by a physician of London, and printed in 1699;1 but its 1 Harris's Description of the Gardens of the Loo, London, 1699, 4o. p. 70. The story is adopted by Hume (Hist. of Mary Tudor), from whom it is not unlikely that Robertson may have taken it. The point is discussed in Cloister Life of Charles V., p. 221, note, ed. 1852. |