To Hamlet, Prince of D.
For Irving, o’er sated with London’s praise
Went once more across the sea.
Yes! that was the reason, as all men know,
And not the mere L. S. D.
That the Lyceum company, touring, had left
The coast clear for Wilson B.
But his rôle was more youthful by far than the rôle
Of actors more thrilling than he
Of parties intenser than he;