Than many of her train can waken: him

Would fain have taught what fruitful things and dear

Must sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight,

If in no vessel built for sea they swim.


THE POINT OF TASTE.

Unhappy poets of a sunken prime!

You to reviewers are as ball to bat.

They shadow you with Homer, knock you flat

With Shakespeare: bludgeons brainingly sublime