Though old the thought and oft exprest,
'T is his at last who says it best.[660:1]
For an Autograph.
Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan,
Repeating us by rote.
Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.
Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.