A Violinist by Francis William Bourdillon. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

A Violinist

Francis William Bourdillon (b. 1852)


THE LARK above our heads doth know
A heaven we see not here below;
She sees it, and for joy she sings;
Then falls with ineffectual wings.

Ah, soaring soul! faint not nor tire!	5
Each heaven attained reveals a higher.
Thy thought is of thy failure; we
List raptured, and thank God for thee.