A history of the Hole family in England and America . ight warm themost frigid disestablish-mentarian toward the Church of Englandto find a Dean with such a keen sense of humor, with such kindlytolerance. He tells a good story with a relish which is a veritableinspiration. His tastes are wide, embracing literature and art, hor-ticulture and most branches of sport. —25- The Oxouian who accompanied John Leech in his famous LittleTour in Ireland, and who wrote the account which was illustratedby Leech in his happiest and most successful manner, was the pres-ent Dean of Rochester. This book, one o
A history of the Hole family in England and America . ight warm themost frigid disestablish-mentarian toward the Church of Englandto find a Dean with such a keen sense of humor, with such kindlytolerance. He tells a good story with a relish which is a veritableinspiration. His tastes are wide, embracing literature and art, hor-ticulture and most branches of sport. —25- The Oxouian who accompanied John Leech in his famous LittleTour in Ireland, and who wrote the account which was illustratedby Leech in his happiest and most successful manner, was the pres-ent Dean of Rochester. This book, one of the Deans best, was outof print for nearly thirty years until quite recently republished inLondon, when it had an enormous sale. The two poems here published are of great interest, as the onewas the hymn sung over the dead body of the Queen, as it lay iastate, while the other is probably the good Deans expression of histrust for his only son, at that time a soldier in South Africa. -26— s ° k s= w p* *-> ? /~ 2n 2 >S ^ ? E IS 2. ^ * r. SSSSBEESS& (Bnh vtst trnv ($amt Borne by Thy angels, through the awful way,To Paradise, where dawns the eternal day,—God rest our Queen. Faith dares not doubt; her prayer and ours is heard;She claims the precious promise of thy word,—God rest onr Queen. With those her dearest, whom she mourned so long,She lives, and loves, and learns the triumph song,—God rest onr Queen. Glory to Jesus—there remaineth stillThis rest for all, who seek to do his will—God rest our Queen. S. REYNOLDS HOLE. January 23, 1901. I suavHMaiif^ HWMWffMB i HYMN FOI? TirQE OF lUjl^. If their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, what prayerand supplication be made by any man, which shall know the plague ofhis own heart, then hear Thou in Ileaven, Thy dwelling place, andforgive.—I Kings, VIxx, 38. Father, forgive Thy children come to claimThe pardon promised to their grief and shame;Forgetful, thankless, in their wayward will;Father
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