From earth to heaven of hero, sage, and bard,

And bade them once more strive for Fame's award?

IV

New long bright life! and happy chance befell—

That I know—when some prematurely lost

Child of disaster bore away the bell

From some too-pampered son of fortune, crossed

Never before my chimney broke the spell!

Octogenarian Keats gave up the ghost,

While—never mind Who was it cumbered earth—