| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Song for Music |
| | | Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928) |
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| COUNT the flashes in the surf, | |
| Count the crystals in the snow, | |
| Or the blades above the turf, | |
| Or the dead that sleep below! | |
| These ye count—yet shall not know,— | 5 |
| While I wake or while I slumber,— | |
| Where my thoughts and wishes go, | |
| What her name, and what their number. | |
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| Ask the cold and midnight sea, | |
| Ask the silent-falling frost, | 10 |
| Ask the grasses on the lea, | |
| Or the mad maid, passion-crost! | |
| They may tell of posies tost | |
| To the waves where blossoms blow not, | |
| Tell of hearts that staked and lost,— | 15 |
| But of me and mine they know not. | |
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