Could lighten as when Shakespeare’s name is named.
How was his body bred we know full well,
But that high soul’s engendering who may tell!
“Five Books of Song.” IV. The Two Worlds. 1894, p. 154.
MATHILDE BLIND, c. 1894
(1841-1896)
“Shakespeare.”
Yearning to know herself for all she was,
Her passionate clash of warring good and ill,
Her new life ever ground in Death’s old mill,