"Tampa Robins," "The Tournament" (Joust 1.), "Barnacles,"
"The Song of the Chattahoochee," and "The First Steamboat Up the
Alabama" are among them. At our "poetry contests" the children have
plainly demonstrated that this great poet has reached his hand down to
the youngest. The time will doubtless come when it will be a part of
education to be acquainted with Lanier, as it is now to be acquainted
with Longfellow or Tennyson.
I.
Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies,
And the knights still hurried amain
To the tournament under the ladies' eyes,
Where the jousters were Heart and Brain.
II.
Flourished the trumpets, entered Heart,
A youth in crimson and gold;
Flourished again; Brain stood apart,
Steel-armoured, dark and cold.
III.
Heart's palfrey caracoled gaily round,
Heart tra-li-ra'd merrily;
But Brain sat still, with never a sound,
So cynical-calm was he.
IV.
Heart's helmet-crest bore favours three
From his lady's white hand caught;
While Brain wore a plumeless casque; not he
Or favour gave or sought.
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