Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

Shakespeare and Milton

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THE TONGUE of England, that which myriads

Have spoken and will speak, were paralyz’d

Hereafter, but two mighty men stand forth

Above the flight of ages, two alone;

One crying out,

All nations spoke through me.

The other:

True; and through this trumpet burst God’s word; the fall of Angels, and the doom

First of immortal, then of mortal, Man.

Glory! be glory! not to me, to God.