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2 Your rule has made the people love Their ruler. Your viceregal days Have added fulness to the phrase Of 'Gauntlet in the velvet glove.'

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:

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.