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Citation Information
MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE
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D. M."
There await him with warm welcome
All the heroes of old Story—
The Venetians, the Q. Polo,
Marco, Nicolo, Maffeo,
Odoric of Pordenone,
Ibn Batuta, Marignolli,
Benedict de Goés—` Seeking
Lost Cathay and finding Heaven.'
Many more whose lives he cherished
With the piety of learning ;
Fading records, buried pages,
Failing lights and fires forgotten,
By his energy recovered,
By his eloquence re-kindled.
` Moriturus vos saluto'
Breathes his last the dying scholar, And the far off ages answer : fin/nor/ales to salutant.
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The same idea had been previóusly embodied, in very
felicitous language, by the late General Sir William Lockhart,
in a letter which that noble soldier addressed to the present
writer a few days after Yule's death. And Yule himself would
have taken pleasure in the idea of those meetings with his old
travellers, which seemed so certain to his surviving friends.78
He rests in the old cemetery at Tunbridge Wells, with his
second wife, as he had directed. A great gathering of friends
attended the first part of the burial service which was held in
London on 3rd January, i 890. Amongst those present were
witnesses of every stage of his career, from his boyish days at the
High School of Edinburgh downwards. His daughter, of course,
was there, led by the faithful, peerless friend who was so soon
to follow him into the Undiscovered Country.i9 She and his
youngest nephew, with two cousins and a few old friends, followed
his remains over the snow to the graveside. The epitaph subse-
quently inscribed on the tomb was penned by Yule himself,
but is by no means representative of his powers in a kind of
composition in which he had so often excelled in the service of
others. As a composer of epitaphs and other monumental
inscriptions few of our time have surpassed, if any have equalled
him, in his best efforts.
78 He was much pleased, I remember, by a letter he once received from a kindly
Franciscan friar, who wrote : " You may rest assured that the Beato Odorico will not forget all you have done for him."
79 F.-M. Lord Napier of Magdala, died 14th January, 1890.
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