Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Sir Edmund William Gosse 18491928Song for Music
Gosse-SiC
Count the crystals in the snow,
Or the blades above the turf,
Or the dead that sleep below!
These ye count—yet shall not know,—
While I wake or while I slumber,—
Where my thoughts and wishes go,
What her name, and what their number.
Ask the silent-falling frost,
Ask the grasses on the lea,
Or the mad maid, passion-crost!
They may tell of posies tost
To the waves where blossoms blow not,
Tell of hearts that staked and lost,—
But of me and mine they know not.