Nature's varied charms,
That he--her martyred son--should rest
Within his mother's fondest arms.

When ye have made his narrow bed,
And laid the good man's ashes there,
Ye shall kneel down around the dead,
And wait upon your God in prayer;
What though no reverend man be near,
No anthem pour its solemn breath,
No holy walls invest his bier,
With all the hallowed pomp of death,

Yet humble minds shall find the grace,
Devoutly bowed upon the sod,
To call that blessing round the place,
Which consecrates the soul to God:
And ye,--the wilds and wastes,--shall tell
How, faithful to the hopes of men,
The Mighty Power he served so well,
Shall breathe upon his bones again!

When ye your gracious task have done,
Heap not the rock upon his dust!
The Angel of the Lord alone
Shall guard the ashes of the just!
But ye shall heed, with pious care,
The memory of that spot to keep;
And note the marks that guide me where
My venturous friend is laid in sleep.

For oh, bethink,--in other times,
And be those happier times at hand,
When science, like the smile of God,
Comes bright'ning o'er that weary land,
How will her pilgrims hail the power,
Beneath the drooping miall's gloom,
To sit at eve, and mourn an hour,
And pluck a leaf on Leichhardt's tomb.

These charming verses were dated the 2d of July 1845. It was not till
the close of the following March, that the cloud suspended over the
destiny of the expedition was suddenly dispelled by the appearance of
Leichhardt himself. As may be supposed, an enthusiastic welcome
awaited the pilgrim, whose bones were long since supposed to be
bleaching in the wilderness. Subscriptions were set on foot, and soon
amounted to fifteen hundred pounds, which, with another thousand
pounds voted by the Legislative Council, were divided amongst the
seven persons composing the expedition. Dr Leichhardt, to whom the
lion's share was with justice awarded, received it at a meeting held
in the School of Arts at Sydney, of which an account is given in
the _Sydney Herald_ under the head of "The Leichhardt Testimonial," and
where Dr Nicholson, speaker of the Legislative Council, addressed the
intrepid traveller, in a strain of high and well-merited eulogium. "It
would be difficult," he said, "to employ any terms that might be
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