Classic Poem

Byron! 'tis thine alone on Eagle's pinions
In solitary strength and grandeur soaring
To dazzle and delight all eyes out-pouring
The electric blaze on tyrants and their minions:
Earth, Sea and Air, and Powers, and Dominions,
Nature — Man — Time — the Universe exploring
And from the wreck of Worlds, Thrones, Creeds, Opinions,
Thought, beauty, eloquence, and wisdom storing.
O! how I love, and envy thee thy glory!
To every age and clime alike belonging,
Linked by all tongues, with every nation's story,
Thou Tacitus of song! — whose echoes thronging
O'er the Atlantic, fill the mountains hoary
And forests, with the name my verse is wronging!