Dramas Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us --
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation --
This -- the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut --
"Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet --
Had not Shakespeare wrote --
Though the "Romeo" left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart --
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut --