L AVINGTON AND R OME

I learned his greatness first at Lavington:
The moon had early sought her bed of brine,
But we discoursed till now each starry sign
Had sunk: our theme was one and one alone:
" Two minds supreme, " he said, " our earth has known;
One sang in science; one served God in song;
Aquinas — Dante. " Slowly in me grew strong
A thought, " These two great minds in him are one;
" Lord, what shall this man do?" " Later in Rome,
Beside the dust of Peter and of Paul,
Eight hundred mitred sires of Christendom
In Council sat. I marked him 'mid them all;
I thought of that long night in years gone by,
And cried, " At last my question meets reply. "