Greet the unseen with a cheer!
Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be,
"Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,—fight on, fare ever
There as here!"
APPENDIX
I. AN ESSAY ON SHELLEY
Shelley's influence on Browning is so frequently referred to, that it seems best, inasmuch as this Essay is the only distinct piece of prose in Browning's writings, to print it here in the Appendix to his Complete Poetic and Dramatic Writings. The paper was written in 1852 at the request of Mr. Moxon, the publisher, under the circumstances named in the first paragraph of the Essay. Before the book was actually published, it was discovered to be a fabrication and was immediately suppressed. A very few copies only escaped the publisher's hands; apparently, those only which went to the depositories of copyright matter. The present copy is taken from the one issued in 1888 by the Shelley Society, London, under the editorship of W. Tyas Harden.