Dear and great Angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with him, for me!

The poet, near the scene of some of England's greatest naval victories, is stirred to even more than patriotic gratitude. Off Cape St. Vincent, at the southern extremity of Portugal, an English fleet of 15 ships defeated a Spanish fleet of 27 ships, in 1797; off Cape Trafalgar, on the Spanish coast, and south-east of the Gulf of Cadiz and of Cape St. Vincent, Nelson won death and victory in 1805; while distant Gibraltar, triumphantly held for three years (1797-82) against the combined powers of France and Spain, stands as a monument to England's naval supremacy.

L'Angelo Custode, the picture which inspired this

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!

Sit and watch by her side an hour.

poem, is in the Church of St. Augustine at Fano, a town on the Adriatic. It was painted by Guercino and "represented an angel standing with outstretched wings by a little child. The child is half kneeling on a kind of pedestal, while the angel joins its hands in prayer; its gaze is directed upwards towards the sky, from which cherubs are looking down." I have omitted the last three verses, which are on a less exalted level and seem to add little to the poem.