Content to go whene’er the feast is over

Content, the feast was not prepared in vain.

ON A TALK OF SPINOZA

Durant spoke of Spinoza yesterday

And I sat list’ning, feeling, meditating.

And now and ever afterwards will feel

And live and think more deeply than before,

For having heard Durant speak of Spinoza.

Spinoza! what a mighty, mighty name!

All Alexanders, Caesars and Napoleons—