| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | Echoes from Theocritus
IV. The Epitaph of Eusthenes | | By Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855–1891) |
| | | A BARD is buried here, not strong, but sweet; | |
| A Teacher too, not great, but gently wise; | |
| This modest stone (the burghers thought it meet) | |
| May tell the world where so much virtue lies. | |
| His happy skill it was in mart and street | 5 |
| To scan men’s faces with a true surmise, | |
| Follow the spirit to its inmost seat, | |
| And read the soul reflected in the eyes. | |
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| No part had he in catholic renown, | |
| Which none but god-inspirèd poets share; | 10 |
| Not his to trail the philosophic gown, | |
| That only sages of the School may wear; | |
| But his at least to fill an alien town | |
| With friends, who make his tomb their loving care. | | | | |
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