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3940953Andromeda, and Other Poems — A FarewellCharles Kingsley

A FAREWELL.

i.
MY fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
    For every day.

ii.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
    One grand, sweet song.