If souls should only sheen so bright
In heaven as in e’thly light,
An’ nothen better wer the cease,
How comely still, in sheape an’ feace,
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Heart touching poem, full of melamcholy and much sadness, great tragedy when the young that died in beauty.5 Stars TOP.
About William Barnes: was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor.. His poetic talent gifted by nature. Phenomenal poet!