hearts and eyes,
The GUEST those galleys bring;
In Wisdom's walks the more than Wise--
'Mid Kings the more than King!
No nobler visitant e'er sought
The Mighty's white-cliff'd isle,
Where ALFRED ruled, where BACON thought,
Where AVON'S waters smile:
Hail to the tempest-vexed Man!
Hail to the Sovereign-Sage!
A wearier pilgrimage who ran
Than the immortal Ithacan,
Since first his great career began,
Ulysses of our age!

A more than regal welcome give,
Ye thousands crowding round;
Shout for the once lorn Fugitive,
Whose soul no solace found
Save in that SELF-RELIANCE--match
For adverse worlds, alone--
Which cheer'd the Tutor's humble thatch,
Nor left him on the throne.
The WANDERER MULLER'S sails they furl--
The Wave-encounterer, who,
When Freedom leagued with Crime to hurl
Up earth's foundations, from the whirl
Where vortex'd Empires raged, the pearl
Of matchless Prudence drew.

V.

Shout for the Husband and the Sire,
Whose children, train'd to truth,
Repaid in feeling, grace, and fire,
The lessons taught their youth.
Recall his grief when bent above
His rose-zoned daughter's clay,
Beside whose marble, lifeless, Love,
And Art, and Genius lay.[44]
And his be homage still more dread,
From our mute spirits won,
For tears of heart-wrung anguish shed,
When with that gray "discrowned head,"
On foot he follow'd to the dead
His gallant, princely son.

VI.

Shout for the Hero and the King
In soul serene--alike,
If suppliant States the sceptre bring,
Or banded traitors strike!
Oh, if at times a thrall too strong
Round Freedom's form be laid,
Where Faction works by wrath and wrong
His pardon be display'd.
Be his this praise--unspoil'd by power
His course benignly ran,
A MONARCH, mindful of the hour
He felt misfortune's wintry shower,
A MAN, from hall to peasant's bower,
The common friend of Man.

VII.

Again the ramparts' loosen'd load
Of thunder rends the air!
Peal on--such pomp is fitly show'd--
He lands no stranger there.
Hear from his lips your language grave
In earnest accents fall--
The memories of the home ye gave
He hastens to recall--
'Mid flash of spears and fiery thr