Nel monte Parnasso;
Tu, meglio consigliato, cercalo
Nel Calvario.
—Chiabrera’s epitaph at Savona. From the title-page of Father Faber’s Poems.
I.
True poet of all mountain sight and sound,
Of barren glen where mighty echoes wake,
Of eagle-haunted, crag-o’ershadowed lake
Where loneliness in silent state sits crowned
And shares her kingdom with no shallow heart: