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HENRY IRVING by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: TIS ART RECLAIMS HIM! BY THOSE
Last Line: GREAT LIKEWISE WAS THE MAN.
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS; GENIUS; MANKIND; HUMAN RACE;
'TIS Art reclaims him! By those gifts of hers
With which so nobly she endowed his mind,
He brought back Shakespeare, in quick grief and glee --
Tasting the world's salt tears and sweet applause, --
For, even as through his master's, so there ran
Through all his multitudinous characters
Kinship and love and honor of mankind.
So all mankind shall grace his memory
In musing proudly: Great as his genius was,
Great likewise was the man.



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