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.

In the original, as written down in her album, there is a third verse between the two:—

I’ll tell you how to sing a clearer carol

Than lark who hails the dawn on breezy down,

To earn yourself a purer poet’s laurel

Than Shakespeare’s crown.

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