• Sweet bell of Stratford, tolling slow,
    In summer gloaming’s golden glow,
    I hear and feel thy voice divine,
    And all my soul responds to thine.

    As now I hear thee, even so,
    My Shakespeare heard thee long ago,
    When lone by Avon’s pensive stream
    He wandered, in his haunted dream:

    Heard thee—and far his fancy sped
    Through...