| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Humanity | | By Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900) |
| | | THERE is a soul above the soul of each, | |
| A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs: | |
| There is a sound made of all human speech, | |
| And numerous as the concourse of all songs: | |
| And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, | 5 |
| Tho’ all the ages are its life-time vast; | |
| Each soul that dies in its most sacred whole | |
| Receiveth life that shall for ever last. | |
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| And thus for ever with a wider span | |
| Humanity o’erarches time and death; | 10 |
| Man can elect the universal man | |
| And live in life that ends not with his breath; | |
| And gather glory that increases still | |
| Till Time his glass with Death’s last dust shall fill. | | | | |
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