Note 129 — Front matter (continued 3)
Reading edition
How appropriate are the lines by Mrs. Browning, dedicated to Cowper's grave:—
"O poets! from a maniac's tongue was poured the deathless singing! O Christians! at your cross of hope a hopeless hand was clinging! O men! this man in brotherhood your weary paths beguiling, Groaned inly while he taught you peace, and died while we were smiling!"