Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;

’Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood,

With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,

Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe,

With a single anemone trembly and rathe;

His strength is so tender, his wildness so meek,

That a suitable parallel sets one to seek—

He’s a John Bunyan Fouqué, a Puritan Tieck;

When nature was shaping him, clay was not granted

For making so full-sized a man as she wanted,