One tear I'll shed to form a crystal shrine
For all that's grand, immortal, and divine."
And the following were furnished me as productions, the first of Washington Irving, and the second of Hackett, the well-known comedian, and best living representative of Falstaff:—
"Of mighty Shakespeare's birth the room we see;
The where he died in vain to find we try;
Useless the search, for all immortal he,
And those who are immortal never die."
"Shakespeare, thy name revered is no less
By us who often reckon, sometimes guess.
Though England claims the glory of thy birth,