Mutely await their working, leave to sight
All of the issue as—below—above—
Shakespeare's creation rises: one remove,
Though dread—this finite from that infinite.
March 12, 1884.
EPITAPH
ON LEVI LINCOLN THAXTER
Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, February 1, 1824.
Died May 31, 1884.
Mr. Thaxter was early a student of Browning's genius and in his later years gave readings from his poems, which were singularly interpretative. The boulder over his grave bears these lines.