'Victor in Poesy, Victor in Romance,

Cloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears,

French of the French, and lord of human tears;

Child-lover; Bard whose fame-lit laurels glance,

Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance,

Beyond our strait, their claim to be thy peers;

Weird Titan, by the winter-weight of years

As yet unbroken, stormy voice of France;

Who dost not love our England—so they say;

I know not—England, France, all man to be