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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grove, Francis

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​GROVE. (Commander, 1838. f-p., 17; h-p., 17.)
Francis Grove, born in 1799, is second son of Edw. Grove, Esq., D.C.L., of Shenstone Park, co. Stafford, a Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire, by his first wife, Caroline, third surviving daughter of the Very Rev. Baptist Proby, Dean of Lichfield, youngest brother of John, first Lord Carysfort. His great-grandfather, Wm. Grove, Esq., D.C.L., represented the city of Coventry in Parliament from 1741 to 1761. One of his brothers, Wm. Grove, Esq., is a Police Magistrate; and another, Edm. Sneyd Grove, Esq., an officer in the R.N. His first-cousin, Mary (daughter, by one of his father’s sisters, of Thos. Lister, Esq., of Armitage Park, co. Stafford), who died in 1838, was the successive wife of Thos. Lord Ribblesdale, and of the present Lord John Russell. Her Ladyship’s sister is now a maid of honour to the Queen.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daedalus 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, and on 2 of the following July was wrecked near Ceylon. From that date until his return to England in July, 1815, he continued to be employed in the East Indies, chiefly as Midshipman, on board the Minden 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, Volage 22, Capt. Joseph Drury, and Malacca 36, Capt. Geo. Henderson. His name was then placed for very short periods on the books of the Manly 12, Capt. Chas. Simeon, and Hyacinth 20, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, both lying at Portsmouth; whence, on being appointed to the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne, he sailed for Algiers. After assisting at the bombardment of that place, 27 Aug. 1816, Mr. Grove proceeded to the coast of North America, where he remained until the summer of 1819. He then, on his return to England, joined the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Campbell, but in the following Dec. was again ordered abroad, having been appointed Mate of the Vigo 74, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 29 Nov. 1821 (upwards of two years after he had passed his examination), in the Beaver 10, Capts. Archibald Maclean and Thos. Bourchier, on the South American station, and next appointed Senior – 9 March, 1824, of the Brisk 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, employed on Home duty – 1 Jan. 1828, of the Challenger 28, commanded on paarticular service by Capts. Joseph Harrison and Chas. Howe Fremantle – and 26 Oct. 1830, of the Tyne 28, Capt. Chas. Hope, with whom he returned to South America. He went on half-pay 2 Sept. 1832; and was advanced to his present rank 28 June, 1838.
Commander Grove married, first, 9 Dec. 1825, Emily, only daughter of the late Geo. Ure, Esq., of the Bengal Medical Establishment; and, secondly, 10 Sept. 1839, Mary, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Roberts, banker, of Glasgow. He has issue, by his first marriage, four sons and two daughters; and, by his second, two sons.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grove, Henry Leslie

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​GROVE. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Henry Leslie Grove entered the Navy, 9 June, 1795, as a Volunteer, on board the Narcissus frigate, Capt. Percy Eraser, whom he accompanied to the Bahama Islands. From 1796 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Aug. 1801, he served as Midshipman, on the Home station, in the Porcupine, Capt. John Draper, London 98, flag-ship of the late Sir John Colpoys, La Nymphe 36, Capt. P. Eraser (one of Lord Bridport’s ships in the action of Ile de Groix, 23 June, 1795), Namur 98, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy, and Narcissus again, Capt. P. Eraser. He was then successively intrusted with the command, until July, 1802, of the William and Constant gun-brigs. Independently of a further command, from Nov. 1803 to April, 1804, of the Hope cutter, stationed off Havre, Mr. Grove was employed, between June in the former year and Jan. 1806, in the Beaver 10, Capt. Chas. Pelly, Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, Pallas frigate, Capt. Lord Cochrane, and Impétueux 74, Capts. John Erskine Douglas, Thos. Byam Martin, and John Lawford. Being in May 1807 appointed an Agent for Transports, he visited in that capacity Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Lisbon; after which we find him officiating, between 1809 and 1815, as Agent for prisoners of war at Gottenborg, and again, in the Transport service, as Resident Agent at Deptford, Guernsey, and Cork. He was invested with the rank of Retired Commander on the Junior List 19 Oct. 1831; and on the Senior 12 Oct. 1846.
Commander Grove holds the appointment of Collector of the Customs at Exeter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grose, Arthur

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​GROSE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
Arthur Grose entered the Navy, 21 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alcmène frigate, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the Belle Poule 38, and Pembroke 74, on the Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, until 1814. During that period, besides contributing to the capture of other smaller vessels, he assisted in the Belle Poule at the taking, 15 Feb. 1809, of Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu; the reduction, in 1809-10, of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, and Sta. Maura; and the destruction, 5 May, 1811, under a heavy hostile fire in the harbour of Parenza, of a French 18-gun-brig. In the Pembroke, Mr. Grose took part in Sir Edw. Pellew’s skirmish with the Toulon fleet, 5 Nov. 1813; and he was also present in the same ship at the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, 11 April, 1814. After witnessing the surrender of Genoa, he was sent home from that place in a prize. He was next for a short time employed on the coast of Africa, in the Comus 22, Capt. John Tailour. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 27 Feb. 1815; and his appointment to the Victory guard-ship at Portsmouth, where he is now serving, 12 Nov. 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grint, William

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​GRINT. (Commander, 1818. f-p., 14; h-p., 33.)
William Grint entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1800, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Zephyr 14, Capts. Wm. Burgundy Champain and Clotworthy Upton, of which vessel, stationed in the Baltic and North Sea, he soon became Midshipman. We are informed that on 2 April, 1801, he fought at Copenhagen on board the Amazon 38, Capt. Henry Riou. In Oct. 1803, after having served for exactly two years, on the Home and West India stations, in the Glatton 54, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, and the Achille and Courageux 74’s, in the latter of which he appears to have witnessed the surrender of Ste. Lucie, he joined the Britannia 100, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk, under whom he was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. Removing, as Master’s Mate, in May, 1806, to the Latona 38, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood, Mr. Grint was next present at the celebrated capture of Curaçoa, 1 Jan. 1807, on which occasion he was invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant. He was confirmed, 27 July following, into the Anson 44, Capts. Fred. Langford and Chas. Lydiard, and afterwards appointed, on the Channel and Cadiz stations – 10 March and 28 Sept. 1808, to the Vulture and Hope sloops, both commanded by Capt. Joseph Pearce – 3 Nov. 1810, to the Pompée 74, Capt. J. A. Wood – 20 Nov. 1811, to the Zenobia sloop, Capts. Alex. Rich. Mackenzie and Rich. Foley – and, in July, 1814, to the command, for a few weeks, of No. 1 gun-boat. He attained the rank of Commander 7 Dec. 1818; but has not since been employed.
Commander Grint has had the honour of receiving a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1805, p. 1484.
* ↑ The Anson was totally wrecked in Mount’s Bay in Dec. 1807, but Mr. Grint, on the occasion of the catastrophe, had the good fortune to be absent in a prize.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Groom, John

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​GROOM. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 13; h-p., 24)
John Groom was born in April, 1797. He is nephew, maternally, of the late Roger Sutton, Esq., uncle of Admiral Sir John Sutton, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vengeance 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, flag-ship in the Channel and off Lisbon of the late Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. He next joined in succession the Bulwark 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Rich. King, and, as Midshipman, the Loire 38, Capt. Brown. In the autumn of 1814, while absent in a prize – the second with which he had been intrusted – Mr. Groom had the misfortune to he himself captured by the Americans, who detained him a prisoner until the end of the war. He then joined the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, and before long sailed for China in the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon. Passing his examination in Jan. 1817, he next served, between April, 1818, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Oct. 1823, on the East India, Home, and West India stations, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Phaeton 46, Capts. W. H. Dillon, Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, Bustard 10, Capt. Rawdon Maclean, and Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence. He continued to be employed in the latter ship until Jan. 1825. He then invalided, and has since been on half-pay. On 25 July, 1834, he was nominated First of the Malabar 74, Capt. Sir W. A. Montagu; but, his health at the time preventing the possibility of his joining, the appointment was cancelled.
Lieut. Groom, prior to his promotion, appears to have been in the enjoyment of a small pension for injuries received in the service. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Groube, Thomas

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​GROUBE. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
Thomas Groube entered the Navy, in June, 1793, as A.B., on board the Leviathan 74, Capt. Lord Hugh Seymour, and in the course of the same year was present at the investment of Toulon. In Feb. 1794, he became Midshipman of the Arethusa 38, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew; under whom, when in company with other ships, he successively witnessed the rapture of La Pomone of 44 guns and 341 men, Le Babet of 22 guns and 178 men, L’Engageante of 38 guns and 300 men, and La Révolutionnaire of 44 guns and 351 men. On his removal with the same officer to the Indefatigable of 46 guns, he further assisted at the capture of L’Unité of 38 guns and 265 men, and La Virginie of 44 guns and 340 men; besides contributing, in company with the Amazon 36, to the destruction, with a loss to the Indefatigable of 19 men wounded, of Les Droits de l’Homme 74. On 21 Aug. 1799, a few months after he had accompanied Sir Edw. Pellew into the Impétueux 74, Mr. Groube was appointed a Lieutenant of that ​ship, and he continued to be borne on her books until April, 1802; previously to which period he had been taken by a French privateer, while in charge of a prize-brig, but not until after a brave defence. He subsequently, on 11 March, 1803, rejoined his patron on board the Tonnant 80, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, with whom he served until his health obliged him to invalid in Feb. 1805. In the following Oct. he was appointed to the Woolwich 44, armée en flûte, and sailed for the East Indies, where he was nominated, 13 Aug. 1806, First-Lieutenant of the Culloden 74, then flag-ship of his friend Sir Edw. Pellew, and where, on 27 of the ensuing Nov., he commanded a division of boats at the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads. In the course of 1807 we find him successively placed by his Admiral in command of the Psyche and Dover ships-of-war, and Victor sloop; in which latter vessel he co-operated in the further annihilation of the dockyard and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the naval force remaining to Holland in the East Indies. From Oct. 1808 until Jan. 1811, he next had charge of the Marine Hospital at Madras; after which, having been officially advanced to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 31 July, 1809, he joined, 29 June, 1812, the Calypso brig, stationed in the Baltic. For his services in that vessel, particularly at the siege of Danzig in 1813, Capt. Groube, whom we previously find conveying Lord Walpole to St. Petersburg, was promoted to Post-rank 7 June, 1814. His acceptance of the Retirement took place 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, 17 March, 1810, Mrs. Watson, daughter of the late Jas. Dudson, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grosett, Walter

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​GROSETT. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 23; h-p., 45.)
Walter Grosett is uncle of John Rock Grosett, Esq., formerly M.P. for Chippenham.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1779, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Sandwich 90, Capt. Walter Young, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Bridges Rodney. In Jan. 1780, while on his passage to the relief of Gibraltar, he assisted at the capture of a 64-gun ship in charge of a large convoy, and was also present in the action with Don Juan de Langara. In Sept. following, after having further participated in the three actions with M. de Guichen, off Martinique, he became Midshipman of the Boreas 32, Capt. John Rodney, whom he subsequently followed into the Sybil 28 (one of the repeating-frigates in the action of 12 April, 1782), and Anson 64. From 1784 until 1787 he was employed in the Thisbe 28, bearing the broad pendant on the North American station of Commodore Herbert Sawyer. Re-embarking early in 1794, as Master’s Mate, on board the Boyne 98, flag-ship in the West Indies of Sir John Jervis, he frequently distinguished himself while serving on shore with the army at the ensuing sieges of Martinique, Ste. Lucie, and Guadeloupe. He was promoted, on 25 Oct. in the same year, to a Lieutenancy in the Quebec 32, Capts. Josiah Rogers, Jas. Carpenter, and John Cooke, and next appointed, on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, and Channel stations, to the Success 32, Capt. Philip Wilkinson, Hector 64, Capt. Peter Aplin, Mahonesa 32, Capt. John Giffard, Centaur 74, Capt. John Markham, Ville de Paris 110, flagship of Earl St. Vincent and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and Queen Charlotte yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale. While in the Quebec, Mr. Grosett appears to have received the thanks of the President and Council of Granada for his able and gallant conduct in having landed with a detachment of 150 seamen and marines on that island, and materially contributed to its tranquillity and preservation; and on another occasion, 16 Feb. 1799, we find him, in command of the Centaur’s boats, destroying the guns of a battery near the Spanish town of Cambrelles, where he burnt five settees, and brought out a similar number. Obtaining a second promotal commission 6 Oct. 1801, he was next appointed to the command – in Aug. 1802, of the Port Mahon brig, on the Guernsey station – and, 18 June, 1803, of the Trent 32, armée en flûte, successive flag-ship at Cork of Admiral Lord Gardner, Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, and Vice-Admirals Jas. Hawkins Whitshed and Edw. Thornbrough. He was posted from the latter vessel 21 Oct. 1810; and on 1 Oct. 1846 was advanced to his present rank. Rear-Admiral Grosett, on his supercession from the Trent, was presented with the freedom of the city of Cork, and the unanimous thanks of the Committee of Merchants for the great attention he had exhibited to their interests. His conduct, during the term of his previous servitude under Lord St. Vincent, so met the approval of that nobleman as to have obtained from him the gift of a medal. The Rear-Admiral is married and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grote, Joseph

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​GROTE. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 13; h-p., 20.)
Joseph Grote, born 5 Feb. 1801, is fourth son of the late Geo. Grote, Esq., a Justice of the Peace for cos. Kent and Oxford, by Selina Mary, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Peckwell. He is brother of Geo. Grote, Esq., M.P. for the city of London, the eminent banker; also of Wm. Henry Grote, Esq., late Major in the 33rd Foot; and of Andw. and Arthur Grote, Esqs., of the Hon.E.I.Co.’s Civil Service, Bengal.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1814, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Eurotas 38, Capts. Hon. Edm. Sexten Pery Knox, Robt. Bloye, and Jas. Lillicrap; in which ship, after conveying the Due de Berri to Cherbourg, and Admiral Fleeming to Gibraltar, he served, until Dec. 1815, on the Home station, and was employed for some time in that year in guarding Napoleon Buonaparte during his detention at Plymouth. Until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 March, 1823, just three years after he had passed his examination, Mr. Grote was next successively employed; as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the West India, Cork, and Newfoundland stations, in the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, Tonnant 80, and Sir Francis Drake 38, flag-ships of Sir Benj. Hallowell and Sir Chas. Hamilton, Drake 10 (which vessel, on 23 June, 1822, was totally wrecked in St. Shott’s Bay), Capts. Octavius Venables Vernon and Chas. Adolphus Baker, and Clinker 12, Lieut.Commander John Eagar. For his exertions on the occasion of the wreck of the Drake, Mr. Grote, who was left the senior surviving officer, had the satisfaction to be presented, immediately after the sitting of the consequent Court-martial, with a commission dated as above, appointing him to the Niemen 28, commanded on the Halifax station by Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly. On 18 Oct. 1824 he joined the Boadicea 46, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Brisbane in the East Indies; where, from July, 1825, until the cessation of hostilities, he took an active part in the Burmese war. He was employed in command, during that period, of a division of boats on the river Irawady, being five months in the ship’s pinnace without once sleeping out of her, and 800 miles away from the ship. Since the paying-off of the Boadicea in 1827, Lieut. Grote has remained unemployed.
# A Year with the Saints/Translator’s Preface

In presenting this work for the first time in English dress, the translator would take the opportunity of drawing the attention of the devout American reader to one or two peculiarities in its structure, which have already won for it a wide recognition among readers of books of its class in Europe.
In the first place, the allotment of separate months to individual virtues agrees well with a practice of self-examination much recommended by many spiritual writers, who advise us to take different virtues in turn as the objects of special effort. Nothing certainly could be better fitted to assist us in the acquisition of a virtue, than these selections from the writings of the most eminent masters of spiritual science, which portray its beauties, declare its necessity, or explain its various degrees and the methods of its attainment.
In the second place, the few words of exhortation or instruction, which open the reading for each day, are followed by the best of all commentaries— that of action. A great part of the book is composed of examples, which, while they have the interest of anecdote, furnish at the same time the strongest proofs of the possibility of carrying out in real life, precepts and principles which might otherwise seem too high and heavenly for our every-day existence.
In the hope then that these exotic flowers may flourish and blossom in many an American garden, they are offered to the lovers of spiritual excellence and beauty by the translator.
# A Yorkshire Tragedy

Originally published in 1608, this transcription is of an edition from 1619. The name on the title page is that of William Shakespeare. This attribution is regarded as dubious, and other playwrights have been suggested, including Thomas Middleton, Thomas Heywood and George Wilkins.
A
YORKSHIRE
TRAGEDIE.
Not so New, as Lamentable and True.
Written by W. Shakespeare.
Printed for T. P. 1619.
ALL'S ONE,
OR,
One of the foure Plaies in one, called a Yorkshire Tragedy. As it was plaid by the Kings Maiesties Players.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen/Abercromby, John

From volume 1 of the work.
​ABERCROMBY, John, the author of several esteemed works on gardening, was the son of a respectable gardener near Edinburgh, where he was born about the year 1726. Having been bred by his father to his own profession, he removed to London at the early age of eighteen, and became a workman in the gardens attached to the royal palaces. Here he distinguished himself so much by his taste in laying out grounds, that he was encouraged to write upon the subject. His first work, however, in order to give it greater weight, was published under the name of a then more eminent horticulturist, Mr Mawe, gardener to the Duke of Leeds, under the title of Mawe's Gardeners' Calendar. It soon rose into notice, and still maintains its place. The editor of a recent edition of this work says, "The general principles of gardening seem to be as correctly ascertained and clearly described by this author, as by any that have succeeded him." And further, "The style of Abercromby, though somewhat inelegant, and in some instances prolix, yet appears, upon the whole, to be fully as concise, and at least as correct and intelligible, as that of some of the more modern, and less original, of his successors." Abercromby afterwards published, under his own name, The Universal Dictionary of Gardening and Botany, in 4to.; which was followed, in succession, by the Gardeners' Dictionary, the Gardeners' Daily Assistant, the Gardeners' Vade Mecum, the Kitchen Gardener and Hot-bed Forcer, the Hot-house Gardener, and numerous other works, most of which attained to popularity. Abercromby, after a useful and virtuous life, died at London in 1806, aged about eighty years.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Obedience (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—OBEDIENCE.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
In thy strong teeth bite hard thy bit of steel, Curve on thy chest thy nostrils belching fire, Hold in thy strength, and check thy generous ire, War-horse, impatient in thy battle-zeal. 'Mid the fierce onset where the standards reel, And bright swords flash, and cannons thunder dire, Fain wouldst thou fly, and there with joy expire, Proud in thy blood thy loyalty to seal. But where's the signal? Wait. Thy foam devour, Smoothen thy mane, and dull thine eyes' red flush, With pricked-up ears attent until the hour, True to thy rider's will. So when it rings, That glorious hour, thou shalt have leave to rush Through space entire, not on thy feet but wings.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Poesy (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—POESY.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Thou canst not die, my foolish fears are vain, O Muse! O Poesy! My love for aye! Thou livest and shalt live. The sun, the day, Are less than thee, the life of hill and plain! Long as the Spirit makes the heart its fane, And homewards, Godwards, lifts our eyes, thy ray Shall light our path, and thy bewitching lay Our exile charm and mitigate our pain. And ye who scorn her art, ye worldly-wise, Or who profane it, which is guiltier far, Ye may degrade yourselves, and blind your eyes And close your ears, but ye can never mar Her glory with your boastful blasphemies, Nor quench in heaven the lustre of one star.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Sensitive Genius (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet—SENSITIVE GENIUS.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
'Tis not the first man killed by careless blame Flung by an idler. Many more have died Unseen and bleeding at the left-hand side, Struck by some thoughtless archer's random aim. A flower requires not storm or lightning-flame To blight its beauty. Clumsy hands applied Crack the pure crystal to heaven's bow allied. A hailstone's mortal to the dove's frail frame. And far more delicate than trembling dove, Or crystal prized, or flower in beauty bowed, Is the poor gifted artist's heart of love. But like a selfish headstrong child, the crowd Breaks in its play a gem, all price above, And then, 'I did not touch it,' cried aloud.