FROM SHAKESPEARE ΤΟ POPE AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND PHENOMENA OF THE RISE OF CLASSICAL POETRY IN ENGLAND BY EDMUND GOSSE CLARK LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY TO W. D. HOWELLS. THE humming-bird in June Sits, like a jewel, on your taut clothes-line, And then away he goes, A flash of ruby on the southward air, And comes no more, though still the straits are fair, Where misty Cambridge from the Beacon shows Pale rose; But leaves a plume behind, A little plume you fold into a book, On which, one day, if you should chance to look, Your tiny friend would rise, thro' storm and wind, To mind. The fluted conchs that came Long since in Salem merchant-ships to town, These still, if shaken, give From their deep hearts a murmur of the dome |