From The German

No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high As Kepler--yet his Country saw him die For very want! the Minds alone he fed, And so the Bodies left him without bread.

1799. First published in The Friend, Nov. 30, 1809 (1818, ii. 95; 1850, ii. 69). First collected P. and D. W., 1877, ii. 374.