text:  When we call to mind the influence produced on a people by the poetry of a nation--when we call to mind that whatever is desired to be inculcated whether for good or for evil the power of poetry has been employed to advance it even from the times when the Monarch-Minstrel of Israel glorified his Maker in Psalms to the latest attempts which have been made to propagate treason immorality or atheism--when we thus think of these things we may learn how much of gratitude is due to those men who having had the precious ointment of poetic genius poured abundantly on their heads have felt and acknowledged that they were thereby consecrated to the cause of virtue--who have never forgotten that there was a time when "The sacred name Of poet and of prophet was the same