None balks the genius with impunity!

You know what kind's the nobler, what makes grave

Or what makes grin: there 's yet a nobler still,

Possibly,—what makes wise, not grave,—and glad,

Not grinning: whereby laughter joins with tears,

Tragic and Comic Poet prove one power,

And Aristophanes becomes our Fourth—

Nay, greatest! Never needs the Art stand still,

But those Art leans on lag, and none like you,

Her strongest of supports, whose step aside