Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The Worlds Best Poetry. Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | Poems of Home: IV. Youth | A Farewell | Charles Kingsley (18191875) |
| 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. | |
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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. | | | |
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