Blind Tyranny? Whom these, like men, withstood:

Whose tenfold force flings back the iron gate,

Whose names upon the reddening morn are scrolled.

February 22, 1888.

REMINISCENT

THROUGH seas of light above the opal blue

Across the Adriatic sped our ship,

Her long wake trailing towards the ocean’s lip,

Far from the isles of Greece; in our fond view