Classic Poem

Dublin transmits you, famous, to the West.
America shall welcome you, and we,
Reflected in that mighty glass, shall see,
In full proportion, power at which we guessed:
We live too near the eagle and the nest
To know the pinion's wide supremacy:
But yours, of all the wings that crossed the sea,
Carries the wisest heart and gentlest.
It is not multitudes, but Man's idea
Makes a place famous. Though you now digress,
Remember to return as, back from Rome,
Du Bellay journeyed to his Lyrè home;
And Plutarch, willingly, to Chæronea
Returned, and stayed, lest the poor town be less.