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III.

Your rule has made the people love

Their ruler. Your viceregal days
Have added fulness to the phrase
Of 'Gauntlet in the velvet glove.'

IV.

But since your name will grow with Time,

Not all, as honouring your fair fame
Of Statesman, have I made the name
A golden portal to my rhyme:

V.

But more, that you and yours may know

From me and mine, how dear a debt
We owed you, and are owing yet
To you and yours, and still would owe.