XXXV + 

Perchance to benefit mankind, + 

Or but for fame he saw the light; + 

His lyre, to silence now consigned, + 

Resounding through all ages might + 

Have echoed to eternity. + 

With worldly honours, it may be, + 

Fortune the poet had repaid. + 

It may be that his martyred shade + 

Carried a truth divine away; + 

That, for the century designed, + 

Had perished a creative mind, + 

And past the threshold of decay, + 

He ne’er shall hear Time’s eulogy, + 

The blessings of humanity. + 