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The Knight's Return

By Charles Kingsley

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Hark! hark! hark!     The lark sings high in the dark.     The were wolves mutter, the night hawks moan,     The raven croaks from the Raven-stone;     What care I for his boding groan,     Riding the moorland to come to mine own?     Hark! hark! hark!     The lark sings high in the dark.     Hark! hark! hark!     The lark sings high in the dark.     Long have I wander'd by land and by sea,     Long have I ridden by moorland and lea;     Yonder she sits with my babe on her knee,     Sits at the window and watches for me!     Hark! hark! hark!     The lark sings high in the dark.     Written for music, 1857.

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About Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English novelist, historian, and poet whose poem "The Three Fishers" and children's book "The Water-Babies" are Victorian classics. He was also a social reformer and advocate for "Christian Socialism."

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