To the Memory of Sir John Lockhart Ross
Heroic virtue deigns for to engross
My muse, to keep the good in memory:
Then it shall be of famous L OCKHART R OSS ,
When his name gilds, my strains can never die.
H OWARD and Drake did bless E LIZA'S reign.
And R ALEIGH pour'd destruction on our foes.
R USSEL and R OOKE were both the scourge of Spain.
Yet none more so than our immortal Ross.
He with his little Tartar did more good
My muse, to keep the good in memory:
Then it shall be of famous L OCKHART R OSS ,
When his name gilds, my strains can never die.
H OWARD and Drake did bless E LIZA'S reign.
And R ALEIGH pour'd destruction on our foes.
R USSEL and R OOKE were both the scourge of Spain.
Yet none more so than our immortal Ross.
He with his little Tartar did more good
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