And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,
Self-school’d, self-scann’d, self-honour’d, self-secure,
Didst tread on earth unguessed at.—Better so!
All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,
Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.
Poems. 1853.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, 1853
(1775-1864)
“Shakespeare and Milton.”