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

Song: ‘The bee to the heather’

Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)

THE BEE to the heather,

The lark to the sky,

The roe to the greenwood,

And whither shall I?

O, Alice! Ah, Alice!

So sweet to the bee

Are the moorland and heather

By Cannock and Leigh!

O, Alice! Ah, Alice!

O’er Teddesley Park

The sunny sky scatters

The notes of the lark!

O, Alice! Ah, Alice!

In Beaudesert glade

The roes toss their antlers

For joy of the shade!—

But Alice, dear Alice!

Glade, moorland, nor sky

Without you can content me—

And whither shall I?