Content by Norman Gale. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

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Norman Gale (b. 1862)


THOUGH singing but the shy and sweet
Untrod by multitudes of feet,
Songs bounded by the brook and wheat,
I have not failed in this,
The only lure my woodland note,	5
To win all England’s whitest throat!
O bards in gold and fire who wrote,
Be yours all other bliss!