The chief of all the servants of thy fame.

IV.

Yea, like a Roman of the days of old,

I would, for thee, construct a votive shrine,

And fan the fire, and consecrate the wine;

And have a statue there, of purest gold,

And bow thereto, unlov'd and unconsoled,

But proud withal to know the statue thine.

V.

For it were sacrilege to stand erect,