“Shakespeare’s Statue,
Central Park, New York, 23 May 1872.”

Here, in his right, he stands!

No breadth of earth-dividing seas can bar

The breeze of morning, or the morning star,

From visiting our lands:

His wit the breeze, his wisdom as the star,

Shone where our earliest life was set, and blew

To freshen hope and plan

In brains American,—

To urge, resist, encourage, and subdue!