30 OCTOBER 1852, Page 9

INTELLECTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

A man by action's logic taught to espy Art's dim conclusions with intuitive eye ; Who, while the thoughtful ponder'd, guess'd or knew

What best beseem'd both him and them to do ; Who on each task threw forth his resolute soul,

Nor knew one selfish thought save self-control, (For self-devotion has no inward eyes) ;— Such were our hero's gifts, and such we prize. Write high his name 'mid foremost minds of earth, And say, or genius this, or genuine worth ? L E. B.