And he who read was rapt to him who writ.

Twin stars they shine, one fame forevermore.

A fire of funeral blazed, beside the sobbing shore.

II

One slept a sacred sleep, while golden lay

Autumnal moonlight glorious on his bed,—

Sleep ebbing deathward like a sea-drawn bay.

A Book was in his hand, whence late he read

Majestic words of that great Spirit that still

Doth haunt by Avon April-garlanded.