Erect and proud, and pure and free,
It overlooked each loathsome law
The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor
Whereunto others bend the knee,
And only what was noble saw.”
The blameless spirit of a lofty aim
Sees not a line that asks to be concealed
By dextrous evasion; but, revealed
As truth demands, doth Nature smite with shame
Them, who with artifice of ivy-leaf