A Farewell: To C. E. G.

Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875



My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe in skies so dull and gray;
Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I'll leave you,
For every day.
  
I'll tell you how to sing a clearer carol
Than lark who hails the dawn or breezy down
To earn yourself a purer poet's laurel
Than Shakespeare's crown.
  
Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever,
One grand sweet song.
  
February 1, 1856.
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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 487
Words 100
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1

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