Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Farewell" id="Farewell"></SPAN>A FAREWELL</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>My fairest child, I have no song to give you;<br/></span> <span class="i1">No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;<br/></span> <span>Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you<br/></span> <span class="i4">For every day.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>I'll tell you how to sing a clearer carol<br/></span> <span class="i1">Than lark who hails the dawn or breezy down,<br/></span> <span>To earn yourself a purer poet's laurel<br/></span> <span class="i4">Than Shakespeare's crown.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:<br/></span> <span>And so make life, death, and that vast forever,<br/></span> <span class="i4">One grand, sweet song.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Kingsley</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />