Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Frederic William Henry Myers 18431901A Song
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Some God within her soul has lit,
Her face is rosy with the song
And her gray eyes are sweet with it.
Has earth a lovelier sight than this?
Oh, he that look’d had soon desir’d
Those lips to fasten with a kiss.
Who seeks not toward its utmost goal;
Give me an hour for drinking in
Her fragrant and her early soul.
Who less and more than I shall know,
For me, world-weary, it is best
To listen for an hour and go:
And think upon her long and long,
And bear for ever in my heart
The tender traces of a song.