A FAREWELL.
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 youFor every day.Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;Do noble things, not dream them all day longAnd so make life, death, and that vast forever,One grand, sweet song.
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 youFor every day.Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;Do noble things, not dream them all day longAnd so make life, death, and that vast forever,One grand, sweet song.
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 youFor every day.
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;Do noble things, not dream them all day longAnd so make life, death, and that vast forever,One grand, sweet song.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them all day long
And so make life, death, and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song.
—Charles Kingsley.