To their citherns and citoles.”
D. G. Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel
4. From a consideration of the specimens given below, and of other examples that occur to you, write a brief essay on the Victorian lyric.
(1) Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase e’en now the fliers,