| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Cardinal Manning |
| | | Aubrey Thomas De Vere (b. 1814) |
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| I LEARN’D his greatness first at Lavington: | |
| The moon had early sought her bed of brine, | |
| But we discours’d till now each starry sign | |
| Had sunk: our theme was one and one alone: | |
| “Two minds supreme,” he said, “our earth has known; | 5 |
| One sang in science; one serv’d God in song; | |
| Aquinas—Dante.” Slowly in me grew strong | |
| A thought, “These two great minds in him are one; | |
| ‘Lord, what shall this man do?’ ” Later at Rome | |
| Beside the dust of Peter and of Paul | 10 |
| Eight hundred mitred sires of Christendom | |
| In Council sat. I mark’d him ’mid them all; | |
| I thought of that long night in years gone by | |
| And cried, “At last my question meets reply.” | |
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