Linger o’er the music of our words;
Haply coming poets shall compare me
Then to Milton in his lovely youth,
Sitting in the cell of Galileo,
Learning at his elder’s lips the truth.
Haply they shall liken these dear moments,
Safely held in History’s amber clear,
Unto Dante’s converse bland with Virgil,
On the margin of that gloomy mere!
Paumanokides.