A Farewell. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Poems of Home: IV. Youth. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. I. Of Home: of Friendship

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904.

Poems of Home: IV. Youth

A Farewell

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)


MY fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;	5
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.