The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-06-15

From Our Regular Correspondent

NrIom Our 6eRulAr COrTespOnQent.1
LONDON, ENGLAND, May 90, 1890
The Byron statute in Hamilton gardens, was
unveiled yesterday at one o'clock by Lord Haueh-
ton, in the presence of q small company.
Five years have elapsed since, at meeting of
the enthusiastic promoters of q memorial to
Lord Byron, which meeting was held at Williss
Rooms under the presidency of Lord Beacons-
field, Q stanZa from the fourth canto of Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage" was quoted with telling
torce BY one, OF the speakers, reminding his ap-
preciative hearers that the famous poet in whose
honor the meeting in question had been con-
vened, was not without a consciousness of his
own assured Immortality, Lord Rosslyn repeated
the lines:
But have lived and have not lived in vain
Ny mind may lose Its force my blood its nre,
And my frame may perish een in conquering pain
But there s that within me which shall tire
Fortune and Time and breathe when expire;
Something unearthy, which they deem not Of
Like the remembered tone Of q mute Tyre,
Shall on their soften'd spirits sink and move
In hearts all rocky now the late remorse Of love,
AS Lord Bryon penned these lines from the
heart of the Eternal City, was there 8 pro-
phetic foretaste in his mind that seven years
after his death, the greatest of English reviewers
would speak of him in his old enemy, the " Eden
burgh Review" in the following terms: AT
twenty-four, Lord Byron found himself on the
highest pinnacle of literary fame, with Scott,
Moore, Wordsworth, Southey, and crowd Of
other distinguished writers beneath his feet
There is scarcely an instance in history of 30
sudden a rise TO 80 dizzy on emincnce." From
1881, when Lord Macauley's review appeared in
print, until the present hour, the fame of the
poet-whose statue WILL from its pedestal in
Hamilton gardens this morning, salute the gay
and fashionable throng of visitors to Hyde Park
has suffered neither abatement or decline De-
spite the insurrection which has now and again
burst forth against the mysterious, unhappy,
Lara-like heroes" of Lord Byrons pen, the re-
action of public opinion not only within these
islands, but wherever the English tongue is
spoken, and especially in the United States, has
set "the most celebrated Englishmen of the
nineteenth century" upon a summit, where, IL
not "pyissUs inter p0res," he is overtopped by
none.
To conceive hattering statue for 20 myriad
minded an anthor was no light task. The exi-
gencies of sculpture forbid the expression of
violent action, and beckoned away by the neces-
stiles OF his art from the attempt 10 portray
Byron, as he often painted himself
With q swimmers stroke
Flingng the bllows back from HE drenchea hair,
And laughing from his lip the auaacious brine
Which kissed II like Q wine emp.
Mr. r. G. Belt has represented the the poet sit
ting In deep repose. and, with the manuscript Of
Childe Harold upon his knees, contemplating
from the rock which supports his colossal figure,
the ocean which was bis delight. At his feet
crouched the Newfoundland dog, Boatswain,
whose epitaph his noble master could not write
without fling at his human brethren and sisters
for their inferior fidelity and constancy. The
yachting dress in which the figure is clothed
suggests the element upon which the poets eyes
are bent, and the entire absence Of affection in
his mein and attitude harmonizes with The we'll
known antlpaihy TO theatrical attitudes and
preientious ways It win, think, BE- The gem
esal opinion that In this colasaal sitting figure
Mr. Bell has surpassed his previous handiwork.
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