| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Salve! | | By Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897) |
| | | TO live within a cave—it is most good; | |
| But, if God make a day, | |
| And some one come, and say, | |
| ‘Lo! I have gather’d faggots in the wood!’ | |
| E’en let him stay, | 5 |
| And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood! | |
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| So sit till morning! when the light is grown | |
| That he the path can read, | |
| Then bid the man God-speed! | |
| His morning is not thine: yet must thou own | 10 |
| They have a cheerful warmth—those ashes on the stone. | | | | |
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