He has further enriched his native literature with an imperishable monument of majestic diction, an example potent to counteract that wasting agency of familiar usage by which language is reduced to vulgarity, as sea-water wears cliffs to shingle.
He has reconciled, as no other poet has ever done, the Hellenic spirit with the Hebraic, the Bible with the Renaissance.

And, finally, as we began by saying, his poem is the mighty bridge-- "Bound with Gorgonian rigour not to move," across which the spirit of ancient poetry has travelled to modern times, and by which the continuity of great English literature has remained unbroken..