| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Shakespeare and Milton | | By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | THE TONGUE of England, that which myriads | |
| Have spoken and will speak, were paralyzed | |
| Hereafter, but two mighty men stand forth | |
| Above the flight of ages, two alone; | |
| One crying out: | 5 |
| All nations spoke thro’ me. | |
| The other: | |
| True; and thro’ this trumpet burst | |
| God’s word; the fall of Angels, and the doom | |
| First of immortal, then of mortal, Man. | 10 |
| Glory! be glory! not to me, to God. | | | | |
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