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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)

A Boat-Song (from Hypatia)

LOOSE the sail, rest the oar, float away down,

Fleeting and gliding by tower and town.

Life is so short at best! snatch, while thou canst, thy rest,

Sleeping by me.