Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). Eutopia. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Eutopia

By Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897)


THERE is a garden where lilies
And roses are side by side;
And all day between them in silence
The silken butterflies glide.

I may not enter the garden,	5
Tho’ I know the road thereto;
And morn by morn to the gateway
I see the children go.

They bring back light on their faces;
But they cannot bring back to me	10
What the lilies say to the roses,
Or the songs of the butterflies be.