| Description | Commences 'O decus imperii, cui Ganges paruit ingens / Cuiusque auspiciis, belli flagrante procella / Res stetit Angligenum ... [O glory of the empire, to whom the huge Ganges yielded and under whose auspices, amid the fiery tumult of war, stood firm the English-nation state]
With note that it was written by Dr Vincent who gave it to William Ousely at the Deanery House, Westminster, in May 1814
[Dr Vincent was Dean of Westminster; an English rhyming verse translation of the poem was later published by Elijah Barwell Impey in 'Cumnor, or the Bugle-Horn, a tragedy with other dramatic dialogues and miscellaneous poems', published by Longmans in 1822: see link in URL field below |