The last two lines of the first stanza are admirable; the last two of the second very weak.

The last stanza is good throughout.
But it would be very unfair to judge Sir Walter by his verse.

His prose is infinitely better, and equally displays the devout tendency of his mind--a tendency common to all the great men of that age.

The worst I know of him is the selfishly prudent advice he left behind for his son.
No doubt he had his faults, but we must not judge a man even by what he says in an over-anxiety for the prosperity of his child.
Another remarkable fact in the history of those great men is that they were all men of affairs.

Raleigh was a soldier, a sailor, a discoverer, a politician, as well as an author.