New-York tribune., 1872-05-23

| In this free Pantheon Of the air and sun.
Where stubborn granite grudgingly gives place
To petted turf, the gardens daintier race
OF flowers, and Art hath slowly won
smile from grim, prmeval barrenness.
What alien Form doth standf
Where scarcely yet the heroes Of the land.
AS in their Futures haven, from the stress
OF all opposing tides, find quiet deep
OF bronze or marble sleep.
What Stranger comes to join the scanty bandi
Who pauses here, as that muses.
While centuries of men go by,
And unto all our questioning refuses
His clear infalliblo repy'
Who hath his will of us, beneath our New-World
skyi
Here, in his right he stands
No sweep Of earth-diyiding seas can bar
The breeze of morning or the morning star
From visiting our lands:
His wit the breeze, his wisdom, as the star
Shone where our earliest life was set, and blew
To freshen deed and plan
In brains American
To urge, resist, encourage, and subdue
He came, a household ghost we could not ban,
He sat, on Winter nights, by cabin-Grcs;
His Summer fairies linked their hands
Along our yellow sands;
He preached within the shadow of our spires;
And when the certain Fate drew nigh to cleave
The brth-cord, and separate being leave,
He, in our ranks of patent-hearted men,
Wrought with the boundless forces of his fame
Victorious, and became
The Master Of our Thought the Lands first Citizen
IT, here, his image seem
or softer scenes and grayer skies to dream
Thatched cot and rustic tavern, iyed hall,
The cuckoo's April call,
And cowslip-meads beside the Avon stream,
He shall not fail that other home to find,
We could not leave behindl
The forms of Passion, which his fancy drew,
In us their ancient lilenesscs begct;
So from our lives forever born anew,
He stands amid his own creations yet!
Here comes lean Cassius Of conventions tired;
Hero, in his coach, luxurious Antony.
Beside his Egypt. still of men admired,
And Brutus plans purer liberty
A thousand Shylocks Jew, and Christian, pass;
hundred Hamlcts, by their times betrayed:
And sweet Anne Page comes tripping o'er the srass
And antcred FalstaG pants beneath the shade.
Here toss upon tho wanton Summer wind
The locks of Rosalind;
Here some gay goyc the damned spot eonceals.
Which Lady Macbeth fecls
LIS eilsc mere smiling blnOOtn lagO taxes.
And Outcast Lear gives passage to his Woo.
And here somc foiled Reforlner sadly breaks
His wand of Prosperol
Here Justice Shallow, famous for delay,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.
Opes with portcntOus menace to the day
The mouth so seldom shut
In liyericd splcndor, side by side,
Nick Bottom and Tiania ride;
And Portia flushed with cheers Of men,
Disdains DEAR faithful Imogen;
And Puck, beside the form of Morse
Stops on his forty y-minute course
And Ariel from his swinging bough
blossom casts on Bryant's brow,
Until, as summoned from his brooding brain,
He sees his children all again
In us, as on our lips each fresh. immortal strainI
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Be welcome, Masterl In our active air
Keep the calm strength we need to learn of thcol
A steadfast anchor bo
Through passions that exhaust and times that wearl
Thy kindred race, that scarcely knows
What power is in Repose,
What permanence in Patience, what renown
In silent faith and plodding toll of Art
That shyly works apart,
All these liz thee uncOnsciously doth crown -
Forgotten virtue feels in thee restored,
And through its genius gives to thine awardi
V.
The Many grow, through honor to the Ono;
And what of loftier life we do not live
This Form shall help to give,
In our free Pantheon Of the air and suni
Here, where the noise Of Trade is loudest,
1t builds shrine august,
To show, when pomp of Wealth is proudest.
How brief is glded dust
How Art succeeds, though long,
And Ger the tumult of the generations,
The sole enduring spirit of the nations,
How speaks the voice of Song
Our City, at her gateways Of the sea,
Twines bay around the mural crown upon her.
And wins new love and nobler dignity,
Giving the Poet honorl
If what he was never can renew,
Still, knowing, honorinG him, we may be wise and
truel BAYARD TAYLOR.
40 r -. n,A.x.