[STANZA XV.]

... "save one whose smile
Is gentler for its memories,"

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

"The poet Friend of Poets,"

Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Whittier, in dedicating one of his volumes to Stedman, called him "Poet, and Friend of Poets."

"And the lone voice of Arizonian song,"

Joaquin Miller.

[STANZA XVI.]

"She whose swift verse," etc.,