POETS.
[Dedicated to George P. E. Scott, Esq.]
He is a poet, who lays stone to stone,
As well as he who builds the lofty rhyme:
We have stone poems dating from the prime
Of Athens, and three thousand years have flown
Without the ivy of oblivion
Loosing one fragment from the pile sublime
Reared on Troy's ashes in the elder time
By the blind islander. The Parthenon
And Iliad are ideas alike in kind
But told in divers forms. It matters nought
What the material moulded to the mind,
If the result matches the artist's thought.
One builds a stately pleasure-house in rhyme,
And one a poem writes in stone and lime.
