20 DECEMBER 1890, Page 15

IN A LATE SCHOLAR'S LIBRARY.

How oft your loved society he sought, Ye bards and sages ! He the world would quit, Here at thy feet, 0 Dante, listening sit,

And by thy lips, melodious lips, be taught!!

In words with wisdom of Aquinas fraught Or with thee, Horace, his life-favourite, Here would he talk, and something of thy wit And of thy playful irony he caught ; Thy fancy, Scott, here clouded - -oulents lit; Here thou, A-Kempis, treasurgiVond oaught Earth holds wonldst open, and then/ beauty emit His reverent spirit, and away he brought Some pearls of price, that gleamed through what he writ, Or more and more enriched the work he wrought.

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