A new library of poetry and song: . n sent-ctamDegere^ncc citkata curcntctn. Not to be tuneless in old nge ! Ah ! surely blest his pilgrimage, Who, in his winters snow,Still sings with note as sweet and clearAs in the morning of the year When the first violets blow ! Blest!—but more blest, whom summers springs impulsive stir and beat. Have taught no feverish lure;Whose Muse, benignant and serene,Still keeps his autumn chaplet green Because his verse is pure ! Lie calm, O white and laureate head !Lie calm, O Dead, that art not dead. Since from the voiceless graveThy voice shall speak
A new library of poetry and song: . n sent-ctamDegere^ncc citkata curcntctn. Not to be tuneless in old nge ! Ah ! surely blest his pilgrimage, Who, in his winters snow,Still sings with note as sweet and clearAs in the morning of the year When the first violets blow ! Blest!—but more blest, whom summers springs impulsive stir and beat. Have taught no feverish lure;Whose Muse, benignant and serene,Still keeps his autumn chaplet green Because his verse is pure ! Lie calm, O white and laureate head !Lie calm, O Dead, that art not dead. Since from the voiceless graveThy voice shall speak to old and youngWhile song yet speaks our F^nglish tongue By Charles or Thamis wave. Austin Dobson American Publishers : Dodd^ Mead fr New York. LUNGFiiLLOWS HUMli AT CAMBRIDGE. Someivhat back from the village streetStands the old-/ashtoned country seat. Once~~ah ! once—ivtthin these hallsOne whom memory o/t recalls^ The Father of hts Country^ dwelt. INTRODUCTION. 45 as the English is a living language. Tlie footiDrints of Pope are not those ofa giant, but he has left them scattered all over the held of our literature,although the fashion of writing like him has wholly passed away. Certain faculties of the poetic mind seem to have shuubered fiom the timeof Milton to that of Thomson, who showed the literary world of Great Britain,to its astonishment, what a profusion of materials for poetry Nature offersto him who directly consults her instead of taking his images at blank verse, however, is often swollen and bladdery to a painfuldegree. He seems to have imagined, like many other vi^riters of his time, thatblank verse could not support itself without tlie aid of a stilted phraseology ;for tliat fine poem
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