Yorick's Skull
by John Banister Tabb
Poor jester! still upon the stage,
Chap-fallen flung,
Where merry clowns from age to age
Thy dirge have sung;
Yet more than Eloquence may reach,
Thought-heights among:
'T is thine, humanity to teach,
Sans brains or tongue.
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston