Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

All these, with ceaseless praise, his works behold,

Both day and night. How often, from the steep

Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard

Celestial voices, through the midnight air,

Sole or responsive to each other's note,

Singing their great Creator! oft, in bands,

While they keep watch; or, nightly walking round,

With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds,

In full harmonic number join'd; their songs

Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven."[339:A]