Since he is Poet of whom gods ordain <br />Some most anthropic and perhuman act <br />Whereby his manhood shall so man his fact <br />That but his man of man is born again, <br />And since humanity is most humane, <br />Not at our pyramid's base, where we have tact <br />Of dust and supersurge the common tract <br />Of being, but up there, where form doth reign <br />To apex, let a Poet ask no fame <br />But that which, high o'er floods of Life and Death <br />From singing arks Ararat echoeth <br />To Ararat, and let him rather be, <br />Oh Poet, writ on yonder page by thee <br />Than hear what vulgar breath should make his world-wide name.<br /><br />Sydney Thompson Dobell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-receiving-a-book-from-dante-rossetti/
