Felix Opportunitate Mortis
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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Exile or Caesar? Death hath solved thy doubt,
made thee certain of thy changeless fate;
And no more hast wearily to wait,
Straining to the people's tarrying shout
That from unrestful rest drag thee out,
And push thee to those of State
Round which throng courtly loves, uncourted hate,
Servility's applause, and envy's flout.
Twice happy boy! though cut off in thy flower,
The timeliest of all thy race is thine:
Saved from sad alternative, to pine
For heights unreached, or to tower,
Like Alpine crests that only specious shine,
And glitter on the lonely peak of Power.
June 1879