In death a hero, as in life a friend!
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.