| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | October 20 | | Burton | | By Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | Richard Burton died October 20, 1890.
WHILE England sees not her old praise dim, | |
| While still her stars through the world’s night swim, | |
| A fame outshining her Raleigh’s fame, | |
| A light that lightens her loud sea’s rim, | |
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| Shall shine and sound as her son’s proclaim | 5 |
| The pride that kindles at Burton’s name. | |
| And joy shall exalt their pride to be | |
| The same in birth if in soul the same. | |
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| But we that yearn for a friend’s face—we | |
| Who lack the light that on earth was he— | 10 |
| Mourn, though the light be a quenchless flame | |
| That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. | | | | |
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