Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
EutopiaFrancis Turner Palgrave (18241897)
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And roses are side by side;
And all day between them in silence
The silken butterflies glide.
Tho’ I know the road thereto;
And morn by morn to the gateway
I see the children go.
But they cannot bring back to me
What the lilies say to the roses,
Or the songs of the butterflies be.