Hazlitt
Hazlitt, also, tea-drinker and joyous walker,
To him we give thanks and are grateful that
He saw Shakespeare as man, not as over-great
Above the comprehending of reader and talker.
In swift English writing of Hamlet and those
Live-moving figures of poetry and high wit
He cast new wholesome light on the sense that writ
And a love that with friendship is instinct and glows.
Never more need of brave minds than in setting free
This figure of Time for friendship and not for fear:
Shakespeare, companier of men that were lively here
And walked happy in thought in an England Merry.
So to Hazlitt thanks, and a clear thought of gratitude,
For his speaking in words so plain our Shakespeare's mood.
To him we give thanks and are grateful that
He saw Shakespeare as man, not as over-great
Above the comprehending of reader and talker.
In swift English writing of Hamlet and those
Live-moving figures of poetry and high wit
He cast new wholesome light on the sense that writ
And a love that with friendship is instinct and glows.
Never more need of brave minds than in setting free
This figure of Time for friendship and not for fear:
Shakespeare, companier of men that were lively here
And walked happy in thought in an England Merry.
So to Hazlitt thanks, and a clear thought of gratitude,
For his speaking in words so plain our Shakespeare's mood.
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