THE NAUTILUS. Ill 



written and addressed to him. The present time, when renewed in- 

 terest in Conrad and his labors has lead to the republication of his 

 chief works, seems an appropriate occasion for their presentation. 



TO TIMOTHY ABBOTT CONRAD. 



Poet and Scientist. 



Oft as the sons of Greece and Rome 



Returned victorious from afar, 

 Their tyrants shouted " Welcome home ! " 



The while they shared the spoils of war. 



It muttered C"t that other lands 

 To yield them wealth must lie in chains ; 



And naught, I'nr^ioth, were crimsoned hands, 

 So othei 's heurts impressed the stains. 



But where are now those soldiers brave, 

 Both they who lost and they who won '.' 



They ,-!ec|) forgotten in the grave, 

 Their names and nations dead and gone. 



Not so have slept the gems of thought 

 Born unto men far down the years ; 



These live while deeds of valor wrought 

 In battle have dissolved in tears. 



The world indeed has wiser grown 



Since Error's clouds such shadows cast ; 



And few now dare to build a throne 

 Upon the ruins of the past. 



" Grim visaged war," rapine and strife, 

 May clutch awhile their leaning lease ; 



But knowledge is the soul of life, 

 And knowledge hails the reign of Pe;i' 



To force of brutes, whose right is might, 

 Eternal tin. ught has ceased to yield ; 



The I 'ay ha> dawned that rules the Night ; 

 Fair Science now commands the field. 



With valiant hearts, and lips coniprest. 



Her sons are wheeling into line, 

 And woe betide the sable crest 



Of Error when their strokes combine. 



No nobler chief their legions know 

 Than thnii, whose victories I sing ; 



No prouder wreath can men bestow 

 Than round thy memory will cling. 



As bard or sage thon art the peer 

 Of men embalmed in storied song, 



Whn, holding truth and virtue dear, 

 Both lived the right and scorned the wrong. 



Upon the fairest diadems 



Of Poesy thy name is cast; 

 And, graven on Creation's gems, 



Thy fame will live while ages last. 



