There 's sunshine; scarcely a wind at all
Disturbs starved grass and daisies small
On a certain mound by a churchyard wall.
Daisies and grass be my heart's bedfellows
On the mound wind spares and sunshine mellows:
Dance you, reds and whites and yellows!
WITH CHARLES AVISON
The manuscript of the Grand March written by Avison was in the possession of Browning's father, and a copy is given at the end of the poem. The Relfe who is two or three times mentioned was Browning's teacher of music, who was a learned contrapuntist.
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How strange!—but, first of all, the little fact