Victor in poesy! Victor in romance!
  Cloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears!
  French of the French and lord of human tears!
Child-lover, bard, whose fame-lit laurels glance,
Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance
  Beyond our strait their claim to be thy peers!
  Weird Titan, by thy wintry weight of years
As yet unbroken!...