| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Two Old Kings |
| | | Lord De Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) (b. 1835) |
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| IN ruling well what guerdon? Life runs low, | |
| As yonder lamp upon the hour-glass lies, | |
| Waning and wasted. We are great and wise, | |
| But Love is gone, and Silence seems to grow | |
| Along the misty road where we must go. | 5 |
| From summits near the morning star’s uprise | |
| Death comes, a shadow from the northern skies, | |
| As, when all leaves are down, thence comes the snow. | |
| Brother and king, we hold our last carouse. | |
| One loving-cup we drain, and then farewell. | 10 |
| The night is spent. The crystal morning ray | |
| Calls us, as soldiers laurell’d on our brows, | |
| To march undaunted, while the clarions swell, | |
| Heroic hearts, upon our lonely way. | |
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