Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HENRY IRVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: Tis art reclaims him! By those
Last Line: Great likewise was the man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Genius; Mankind; Human Race


'TIS Art reclaims him! By those gifts of hers
With which so nobly she endowed his mind,
He brought back Shakespeare, in quick grief and glee --
Tasting the world's salt tears and sweet applause, --
For, even as through his master's, so there ran
Through all his multitudinous characters
Kinship and love and honor of mankind.
So all mankind shall grace his memory
In musing proudly: Great as his genius was,
Great likewise was the man.





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