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xxiii.

All those that here were of thy kind and kin,

Beside thee and below thee, full of love,
Full-souled for song,—and one alone above
Whose only light folds all your glories in—
With all birds' notes from nightingale to dove
Fill the world whither we too fain would win.

xxiv.

The world that sees in heaven the sovereign light

Of sunlike Shakespeare, and the fiery night
Whose stars were watched of Webster; and beneath,
The twin-souled brethren of the single wreath,
Grown in kings' gardens, plucked from pastoral heath,
Wrought with all flowers for all men's heart's delight.

xxv.

And that fixed fervour, iron-red like Mars,

In the mid moving tide of tenderer stars,