A Farewell by Charles Kingsley. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

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

A Farewell

Charles Kingsley (1819–75)


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.