THE POET.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 June 1884, Page 3

THE POET.

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 of the pile sublime, Reared on Troy’s ashes in the eldertime By the blind islander. The Parthenon And Iliad are ideas like in kind, But differently expressed. It matters not What the material moulded to the mind If the result matches the artist’s thought. One builds a stately pleasure house in rhyme, Another builds a poem in stone and lime. Douglas B. W. Sladen. —‘ Melbourne Leader.’