And coldness in such high Olympian calm.

Impassioned purity, high minister

Of spirit's joys, was his, reserved, restrained.

His song was like the sword Excalibur

Of his symbolic knight; trenchant, unstained.

It shook the world of wordly baseness, smote

The Christless heathendom of huckstering days.

"CROSSING THE BAR."