4 OCTOBER 1902, Page 32

POETRY.

SHAKESPEARE AT ELSINORE.

[It was decided on September 25th to erect a monument to Shakespeare at Elsinore. The poet's bust will face the "Hamlet Terrace" of Krouborg

Castle.]

"But what is your affair in Elsinore?"

GREAT Spirit ranging free and wide O'er teeming land and throbbing tide, Dost thou not know us still and guide Our race from shore to shore ?

Yea, dost thou not, with gracious mien, Revisit each created scene

Where long ago thy mind had been, From Rome to terraced Elsinore?

Thou who didst make all lands thine own.

Who thronged all natures round thy throne, Revealing them with light unknown

To mortal man before—

Thou art the symbol, thy calm face The outward sign that Time shall place In every land to mark our race Far south to sombre Elsinore.

J. E. G. DE MONTMORENCY.