They, hearing History speak, of what men were,
And have become, are wise. The gain is great
In vision and solidity; it lives.
Yet at a thought of life apart from her,
Solidity and vision lose their state,
For Earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives.
THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE.
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured
He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell