Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Song: Love lives beyond the tombJohn Clare (17931864)
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And earth, which fades like dew:
I love the fond,
The faithful, and the true.
’Tis happiness of healthy dreams;
Eve’s dews may weep,
But love delightful seems.
And in the morning’s pearly dew;
In earth’s green bowers,
And in the heaven’s eternal blue.
When light and sunbeams, warm and kind,
On angel’s wing
Bring love and music to the mind.
So young, so beautiful, and sweet,
As Nature’s choice
Where Spring and lovers meet?
And earth, which fades like dew:
I love the fond,
The faithful, and the true.