His thought-life was a sun that will never set as long as this above us shines.

It is rising every year to new generations that never saw its rays before.

When he laid down his pen, at the end of his last drama, the whole English-speaking race in both hemispheres did not number twice the present population of London.

Now, seventy-five millions, peopling mighty continents, speak the tongue he raised to the grandest of all earth's speeches; and those who people the antipodes claim to offer the best homage to his genius.

Thus it will go on to the end of time.