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TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA
III.
Their ruler. Your viceregal days
Have added fulness to the phrase
Of 'Gauntlet in the velvet glove.'
IV.
Not all, as honouring your fair fame
Of Statesman, have I made the name
A golden portal to my rhyme:
V.
From me and mine, how dear a debt
We owed you, and are owing yet
To you and yours, and still would owe.