| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Rondeaux.
II. “I would not shrink” | | By Charles Dent Bell (1819–1898) |
| | | I WOULD not shrink if some dear ghost, | |
| One of the dead’s unnumbered host, | |
| Should rise in silence of the night, | |
| Shrined in an aureole of light, | |
| And pale as snowdrift in the frost. | 5 |
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| No! if the brother loved and lost | |
| For me the silent river crossed, | |
| For me left worlds all fair and bright, | |
| I would not shrink! | |
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| Oh, if I gauge my heart aright, | 10 |
| Dear would the dead be to my sight; | |
| A vision from the other coast, | |
| Of one on earth I cherished most, | |
| Would be a measureless delight: | |
| I would not shrink! | 15 | | | |
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