that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter
in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; that is,
a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things;
not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities,
unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that
which is praiseworthy."

Lines 19-20. I have been pleased to discover that the application
I have made of this poem, especially of these lines
(see `Introduction', p. liv [Part VI]), is likewise made
by most students of Lanier's life, and that Mrs. Lanier has chosen
these two lines for inscription on the monument to be erected to his memory.
On the reverse side of the stone, I may add, are to be put these words:
"He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God" (I John iv. 16).




Jones's Private Argyment



That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, [1]
He had this pint about him:
He'd swear with a hundred sighs and groans,
That farmers MUST stop gittin' loans,
And git along without 'em:

That bankers, warehousemen, and sich
Was fatt'nin' on the planter,