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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tercentenary Ode on Shakespeare</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had the honour of delivering in 1864 the principal address at the<br>tercentennial anniversary of Shakspeare in the Town Hall,<br>Ingersoll, before a large audience, and we read the following ode<br>on the occasion:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">' Shakespeare requires no marble monument; <br>He lives forever in our wonder and astonishment.<br>BEN JONSON.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three centuries have passed away<br>Since that most famous April day<br>When the sweet, gentle Will was born;<br>Whose name the age will 'ere adorn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That great Elizabethian age<br>Does not leave on history's page<br>A name so bright, he stands like Saul<br>A head and shoulders over all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delineator of mankind, <br>Who shows the workings of the mind,<br>And in review in nature's glass <br>Portrays the thoughts of every class.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is dull who will not laugh<br>At the drolleries of Falstaff,<br>And few that could not shed a tear<br>At sorrows of poor old King Lear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or lament o'er King Duncan's death,<br>Stabbed by the dagger of McBeth, <br>Or gentle Desdimona pure,<br>Slain by the misled jealous Moore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or great Cesar, mighty Roman,<br>Who o'ercame his country's foemen.<br>His high deeds are all in vain,<br>For by his countrymen, he's slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The greatest of heroic tales<br>Is that of Harry, Prince of Wales,<br>Who in combat fought so fiercely<br>With the brave and gallant Percy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagination's grandest theme,<br>The tempest or midsummer dream,<br>And Hamlet's philosophie [sic] blaze<br>Of shattered reason's flickering rays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now on every land on earth<br>They commemorate Shakespeare's birth.<br>And there is met on Avon's banks<br>Men of all nations and all ranks.<br>And here upon Canadian Thames<br>The gentle maids and comely dames<br>Do meet, and each does bring her scroll <br>Of laurel leaves from Ingersoll.<br>Milton</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q>
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