Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THACKERAY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: O gentler censor of our age!
Last Line: Makes the pantheon where he lies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863); Writing & Writers


O GENTLER Censor of our age!
Prime master of our ampler tongue!
Whose word of wit and generous page
Were never wroth except with Wrong.

Fielding -- without the manners dross,
Scott -- with a spirit's larger room,
What Prelate deems thy grave his loss?
What Halifax erects thy tomb?

But, may be, He -- who could so draw
The hidden Great, the humble Wise --
Yielding with them to God's good law,
Makes the Pantheon where he lies.




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