n they startle most! A Prophet Bard,
With utt'rance equal to his mission of power,
And harmonies that, not unworthy heaven,
Might well lift earth to equal worthiness.

VI.--BURNS AND SCOTT.

----Not forgotten or denied,
Scott's trumpet-lay, and Burns's violin-song;
The one a call to arms, of action fond;
The other, still discoursing to the heart--
The lowly human heart--of loves and joys--
Such as beseem the cotter's calm fireside--
Cheerful and buoyant still amid a sadness--
Such sadness as still couples love with care!

VII.--BYRON.

----For Byron's home and fame,
It needed manhood only! Had he known
How sorrow should be borne, nor sunk in shame,
For that his destiny decreed to moan--
His Muse had been triumphant over Time
As still she is o'er Passion; still sublime--
Having subdued her soul's infirmity
To aliment; and, with herself o'ercome,
O'ercome the barriers of Eternity,
And lived through all the ages, with a sway
Complete, and unembarrassed by the doom
That makes of Nature's porcelain, common clay!

VIII.-A GROUP.

_Shelly and Wordsworth,--Tennyson, Barrett, Horne and
Browning;--Baily and Taylor;--Campbell and Moore._

----As one who had been brought,
By Fairy hands, and as a changeling left
In human cradle, the sad substitute
For a more smiling infant--Shelly sings
Vague minstrelsies that speak a foreign birth,
Among erratic tribes; yet not in vain
His moral, and the fancies in his flight
Not without profit for another race!
He left his spirit with his voice--a voice
Solely spiritual, which will long suffice
To wing the otherwise earthy of the time,
And, with the subtler leaven of the soul,
Inform the impetuous passions!

With him came
Antagonist, yet still with sympathy,
Wordsworth, the Bard of the contemplative,
A voice of purest thought in sweetest music!
--These, in themselves unlike, together linked,
Appear in unison in after days,
Making progressive still, the mental births,
That pass successively through rings of time,
Each to a several conquest; most unlike
That of its sire, yet borrowing of its strength,
Where needful, and endowing it with new,
To meet the new necessity which still
Haunts the free progress of each conquering race.
--Thus, Tennyson and Ba