So _will_ we bear him! Human heart
To the warm earth's drew never nearer,
And never stooped she to impart
Lessons to one who held them dearer.

Stars lit new pages for him; seas
Revealed the depths their waves were screening;
The ebbs gave up their masteries,
The tidal flows confessed their meaning.

Of ocean paths the tangled clue
He taught the nations to unravel;
And mapped the track where safely through
The lightning-footed thought might travel.

And yet unflattered by the store
Of these supremer revelations,
Who bowed more reverently before
The lowliest of earth's fair creations?

What sage of all the ages past,
Ambered in Plutarch's limpid story,
Upon the age he served, has cast
A radiance touched with worthier glory?

His noble living for the ends
God set him (duty underlying
Each thought, word, action) naught transcends
In lustre, save his nobler dying.