| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| At Stratford-on-Avon |
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| SHAKESPEARE, thy legacy of peerless song | |
| Reveals mankind in every age and place, | |
| In every joy, in every grief and wrong: | |
| ’T is England’s legacy to all our race. | |
| Little we know of all thine inner life, | 5 |
| Little of all thy swift, thy wondrous years— | |
| Years filled with toil, rich years whose days were rife | |
| With strains that bring us mirth, that bring us tears. | |
| Little we know, and yet this much we know, | |
| Sense was thy guiding star—sense guided thee | 10 |
| To live in this thy Stratford long ago, | |
| To live content in calm simplicity; | |
| Greatest of those who wrought with soul aflame | |
| At honest daily work—then found it fame. | |
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