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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901)

Gabrielle

O SCARLET berries sunny-bright!

O lake alone and fair!

O castle roaring in the night

With blown Bohemian air!

O spirit-haunted forest, tell

The hidden heart of Gabrielle!

Ah, the superb and virgin face!

Ah once again to see

Transparent through the Austrian grace

The English purity!

To hear the English speech that fell

So soft and sweet from Gabrielle!

So best, but if it be not so

Yet am I well content

To think that all things yonder grow

Stately and innocent;

To dream of woods that whisper well,

And light, and peace, and Gabrielle.