A literary giant on God’s earth
Fortune smiled on his birth
Sublime poetry in blank verse
Enchanting ’n elegantly terse
Histories penned in lofty style
Comedies spark a subtle smile
Tragedies also worth the while
Speak volumes of a mind fertile
Wordplay, humour and irony
Paradox, allusion and Imagery
So novel and swashbuckling
Ecstatic stuff by this earthling
Sonnets composed with finesse
Feelings like fountains effervesce
The soul enthralled ’n bewitched
In utter awe not a brow twitched
The art of writing lay hid in the night
God said: Let William be ’n all was light