Emphasis Preaching Journal

When John Milton was a young man, he wrote this poem in honor of Shakespeare, who had died when Milton was only eight years old. Even in those few years since his death, Milton realized William Shakespeare would need no monument to keep alive his memory. He would continually live through the witness of the ideas which he had left to the world.

"What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones
The labor of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a starry pointed pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame