So dear to Heaven is saintly purity, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, GEORGE THE FOURTH, KING OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, THE UNITED BRITISH EMPIRE, KING OF HANOVER, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK AND LUNEBURG, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c. &c. &c. &c. SIRE, THIS little traditionary sketch of an illustrious hero, is most gratefully laid at your Majesty's feet; by one who, feeling that romance may be to the present times what the song of the bard was to ages past the memorial of de |