| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Rondeaux.
I. “Sweet, soft and low”; or The Willow Warbler | | By Richard Wilton (1827–1903) |
| | | SWEET, soft, and low, in wood and lane | |
| The Willow Warbler weaves its chain | |
| Of melody—a plaintive song | |
| That seems to breathe of ancient wrong | |
| And dimly-recollected pain. | 5 |
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| Its melting cadences retain | |
| Your ear again and yet again, | |
| Through notes more clear and blithe and strong— | |
| Sweet, soft, and low. | |
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| Thus after Life’s most happy strain | 10 |
| A minor music will remain, | |
| Recurring oft and lingering long, | |
| And heard the gayest scenes among; | |
| Of lost joys hinting not in vain— | |
| Sweet, soft, and low. | 15 | | | |
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