| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs of Greater Britain (1899)
III. The Skylark | | By Cicely Fox-Smith (1882–1954) |
| | | WINGED seraph of the summer heaven, | |
| Whose wondrous rapture, wild and long, | |
| A hundred bards in vain have striven | |
| To prison in a song! | |
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| How can they tell, with all their art, | 5 |
| What passions make thy glad throat swell | |
| That, throbbing at thy fiery heart, | |
| Thou feel’st but canst not tell? | |
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| How can we picture in our dreams | |
| The joys that thro’ thy pæan glow | 10 |
| That joy that soars so high it seems | |
| About to break in woe? | |
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| Sing on, wild bird, thy wild glad song | |
| That fills our eyes with sudden tears, | |
| While back upon the fancy throng | 15 |
| Memories of vanished years! | |
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| Sing on, sing on, for ever free! | |
| We cannot know what thou dost sing | |
| And better it should ever be | |
| An undiscovered thing. | 20 | | | |
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