The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

Doing Good Deeds

Doing Good Deeds.

My dearest maid, I have no song to give you,
No lark could pipe in skies so dull and grey;
Yet ere we part, one lesson I will leave you,
For every day,

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever,
Do noble, noble things, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death, and the vast forever,
One grand, sweet song.
C. Kingsley (In a young lady's album).