Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Louise ImogenGuiney

1420 Martyr’s Memorial

SUCH natural debts of love our Oxford knows,

So many ancient dues undesecrate,

I marvel how the landmark of a hate

For witness unto future time she chose;

How out of her corroborate ranks arose

The three, in great denial only great,

For Art’s enshrining!… Thus, averted straight,

My soul to seek a holier captain goes:

That sweet adventurer whom Truth befell

When as the synagogues were watching not;

Whose crystal name on royal Oriel

Hangs like a shield; who, to an outland spot

Led hence, beholds his Star, and counts it well

Of all his dear domain to live forgot.