| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Song: ‘The bee to the heather’ | | By Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
| | | THE BEE to the heather, | |
| The lark to the sky, | |
| The roe to the greenwood, | |
| And whither shall I? | |
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| O, Alice! Ah, Alice! | 5 |
| So sweet to the bee | |
| Are the moorland and heather | |
| By Cannock and Leigh! | |
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| O, Alice! Ah, Alice! | |
| O’er Teddesley Park | 10 |
| The sunny sky scatters | |
| The notes of the lark! | |
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| O, Alice! Ah, Alice! | |
| In Beaudesert glade | |
| The roes toss their antlers | 15 |
| For joy of the shade!— | |
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| But Alice, dear Alice! | |
| Glade, moorland, nor sky | |
| Without you can content me— | |
| And whither shall I? | 20 | | | |
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