Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840826. In After Days Rondeau
IN after days when grasses high | |
O’er-top the stone where I shall lie, | |
Though ill or well the world adjust | |
My slender claim to honour’d dust, | |
I shall not question nor reply. | 5 |
I shall not see the morning sky; | |
I shall not hear the night-wind sigh; | |
I shall be mute, as all men must | |
In after days! | |
But yet, now living, fain would I | 10 |
That some one then should testify, | |
Saying—’He held his pen in trust | |
To Art, not serving shame or lust.’ | |
Will none?—Then let my memory die | |
In after days! | 15 |