Death, hath yet other Compensations!
It has placed you Beyond the Cloy of Fulsome Praise:
Beyond the Sting of Cruel Blame: the One,
may not help You the Other, cannot hurt You!
O! James Whitcomb Riley!
Once, when under the Spell of a Mystic Mood,
you sought—as you had often sought before—that
Wise Wizard of White River.
He met you, when you came into that Peaceful
Indiana Valley—where dwells this Wizard—by the