GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN

NEW YORK: 112, FOURTH AVENUE

1892

03, 16.

CHISWICK PRESS:-CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND co.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

Ir thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content:--The stars pre-eminent in magnitude,

And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their

brightness)

Are yet of no diviner origin,
No purer essence, than the one that burns,
Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge
Of some dark mountain; or than those which

seem

Humbly to hang, like twinkling winter lamps,
Among the branches of the leafless trees;
All are the undying offspring of one Sire:
Then, to the measure of the light vouchsafed,
Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content.