• April, 1860
    goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,
    Long since, saw Byron’s struggle cease.
    But one such death remained to come;
    The last poetic voice is dumb—
    We stand to-day by Wordsworth’s tomb.

    When Byron’s eyes were shut in death,
    We bowed our head and held our breath.
    He taught us little; but our soul
    Had felt him like...