INTRODUCTION
BY
MAURICE HUTTON, LL.D.,
Principal of University College, Toronto
W. H. E.
[There is a Heav’n:] at least on earth below:
[It is where scholars read and thinkers brood]:
For [crowns and halos] volumes in a row
For angels’ wings it has its [gown and hood].
In that seraphic choir see Ellis sit!
With that Elys-ian light his numbers glow:
The scholar’s seriousness, the scholar’s wit,