Excerpt from These Degenerate Days
To J. K. Lowell.
Wit, Humorist, Poet, Critic Diplomat:
How many and what jewels deck the crown
That marks the kingship of thy fair renown, -
The only kingship that a democrat
Like thee could covet! But, when one has sat
Upon thy throne of thought, and, looking down,
Has seen men cringing at a monarch's frown.
Beside real power, how poor must seem all that!
I have been one content to sit and hear
Thy lark-song falling from the upper air
To cheer the vale to humble tasks assigned.
And still thy old notes echo in my ear;
And, as I listen, earth grows very fair,
While I take heart and hope for all mankind!
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