"If decent dignity, and modest mien,
"The cheerful heart, and countenance serene;
"If pure religion and unsullied truth,
"His age's solace, and his search in youth;
"In charity, through all the race he ran,
"Still wishing well, and doing good to man;
"If learning free from pedantry and pride;
"If faith and virtue walking side by side;
"If well to mark his being's aim and end,
"To shine through life the father and the friend;
"If these ambition in thy soul can raise,
"Excite thy reverence or demand thy praise,
"Reader, ere yet thou quit this earthly scene,
"Revere his name, and be what he has been."