Trip with his fairies, keeping step and time.

His too the power to laugh out full and clear,

With unembittered joyance, and to move

Along the silent, shadowy paths of love

As tenderly as Dante, whose austere

Stern spirit through the worlds below, above,

Unsmiling strode, to tell their tidings here.

Poems. 1886, vol. ii. pp. 273-4.

THOMAS SPENCER BAYNES, 1886
(1823-1887)