Drama’s 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—