| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
| |
| Hereafter |
| | | Rosamund Marriott Watson (b. 1860) |
| |
| |
| SHALL we not weary in the windless days | |
| Hereafter, for the murmur of the sea, | |
| The cool salt air across some grassy lea? | |
| Shall we not go bewildered through a maze | |
| Of stately streets with glittering gems ablaze, | 5 |
| Forlorn amid the pearl and ivory, | |
| Straining our eyes beyond the bourne to see | |
| Phantoms from out Life’s dear, forsaken ways? | |
| Give us again the crazy clay-built nest, | |
| Summer, and soft unseasonable spring, | 10 |
| Our flowers to pluck, our broken songs to sing, | |
| Our fairy gold of evening in the West; | |
| Still to the land we love our longings cling, | |
| The sweet, vain world of turmoil and unrest. | |
| |
|
|
|
