The life and letters of James Wolfe . rletons time by another in which a meridional line was gave way in 1832 to a small granite shaft upon which LordAylmer, then Governor, caused to be inscribed— HERE DIED WOLFE VICTORIOUS. It unhappily became defaced, and ninety years after the battlethe column now standing was raised in its stead and enclosed byan iron railing, the cost being borne by the British troops thenstationed at Quebec. But years before then, in 1827, Canadians of both French andEnglish descent subscribed, at the instance of Lord Dalhousie, toa stone obelisk to the memor
The life and letters of James Wolfe . rletons time by another in which a meridional line was gave way in 1832 to a small granite shaft upon which LordAylmer, then Governor, caused to be inscribed— HERE DIED WOLFE VICTORIOUS. It unhappily became defaced, and ninety years after the battlethe column now standing was raised in its stead and enclosed byan iron railing, the cost being borne by the British troops thenstationed at Quebec. But years before then, in 1827, Canadians of both French andEnglish descent subscribed, at the instance of Lord Dalhousie, toa stone obelisk to the memory of both Montcalm and Wolfe. Itstands on the borders of Dufferin Terrace, and is conspicuousfrom the river. On one side is the name Montcalm, on ^ Lord Braybrooke quotes with approval these lines under a bust of Wolfein the old castle at Quebec— Let no sad tear upon his tomb be shed,A common tribute to the common dead :But let the good, the generous and the braveWith godlike envy sigh for such a grave. —N. 4 Q., vol. V. p. o o 7:A POETICAL TRIBUTES 509 the other Wolfe, while the obelisk further bears the strikinglegend— MORTEM . VIRTUS . COMMIJNEMFAMAM . HISTORIAMONUIMENTUM . POSTERFrASDEDIT. The site of the battlefield was acquired by public subscriptionin 1908 and formally handed over by the Prince of Wales to EarlGrey, the Governor-General, to be kept for all time as sacredground. Although Chathams funeral oration on the conqueror of Quebecwas thought in the opinion of those who heard to fall short of hisbest efforts, yet in poetry is Wolfes memory enshrined in stanzaswhich deserve to be more widely known than they are, for theyhave still power to fire the heart and call aloud to the spirit of anEngland whose boundaries are wider than the brave and prescientsoldier who helped to widen them could ever have dreamed— England, with all thy faults, I love thee still !Time was when it was praise and boast enoughIn every clime, and travel where we might,That we were
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