How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
May books and nature be their early joy!