...akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this...toil and "endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,...

...And yet, this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these • the grand old masters," • the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," — to what a towering eminence have they culminated ! Homer, not only the poet, who, transcendently...

...not akin to pain," which comes over him at the evening hour, adds : — " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. " Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers from the clouds of summer...

...And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple, heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling,...toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from the heart As showers from the clouds of summer...

...not akin to pain," which comes over him at the evening hour, adds : — " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of clay. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through...

...akin to pain, And resemhles sorrow only As the mist resemhles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And hanish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards suhlime, Whose distant...

...Each, if he cannot write great things with the ink of life, " Not like the grand old masters, Not like the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time;" if he cannot do this, he can still write " some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay," some life, that...

...akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,...

...Come, read to me some poem, Some simple aud heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, Aud banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,...

...akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As tho mist resembles the rain . Come, read to mo some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish tho thoughts of day. Not from the grand old musters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps...