Nor jeerings coarse, at what men prize, as we
But jest to make some little changeling play
Its pranks in classic robes, all crowned with bay.
J. W. GLEESON WHITE,
CHRISTCHURCH.
March, 1884.
On the 1st March, 1884, a bust of Longfellow (by Mr. T. Brock, A.R.A.) was unveiled in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. It is placed between the graves of Dryden and Cowley, and bears this inscription:—
LONGFELLOW.
"This bust was placed among the memorials of the poets of England by the English admirers of an American poet, 1884."