To Get the Final Lilt of Songs + 

To get the final lilt of songs, + 

To penetrate the inmost lore of poets⁠—to know the mighty ones, + 

Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emerson; + 

To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt⁠—to truly understand, + 

To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price, + 

Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences. + 