The World has Cycles in its course, when all That once has been, is acted o’er again: Not by some fatal law which need appal Our faith, or binds our deeds as with a chain; But by men’s separate sins, which blended still The same bad round fulfil. ---------------------------- DEATH ALL-ELOQUENT. Death and I have met in full, close contact; And parted, knowing we should meet again; Therefore, come when he may, we’ve looked upon Each other far too narrowly for me To fear the hour when we shall be so join’d, That all eternity shall never sever us.—_F. Kemble._ What solemnity is there in the following passage, with which Sir Walter Raleigh concludes his _Marrow of Historie!_ “O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none have dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world have flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, HIC JACET.” Finis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPENDIX. _Generations (page 71)._ MR. HATSELL TO LORD AUCKLAND. Morden Park, Sunday, Nov. 23, 1813. MY DEAR LORD,—I must correct the conclusion of your last letter, "and so the world goes on," to "and so the world goes off." In the same Marlborough family I have lived to see eight[137] generations: 1. Sarah Duchess of Marlborough. 2. Lady Sunderland. 3. Jack Spencer. 4. The first Lord Spencer. 5. The present Lord Spencer. 6. The Duchess of Devonshire. 7. Lady Morpeth. 8. Her children (the present Lord Carlisle and Duchess of Sutherland). I saw Sarah in Lincoln’s-inn consulting Mr. Fazakerly, who stood close to her Grace’s chair; so, you see, I beat history out and out.[138]...—From the _Auckland Correspondence_, vol. iv. p. 401. --------------------- Footnote 137: Only seven; the name of the second Lord Spencer ought to be omitted. Footnote 138: Mr. Hatsell died 1820. ---------------------------- _Memory_ (_page_ 75).