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To G. A. G.

By Charles Kingsley

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A hasty jest I once let fall -          As jests are wont to be, untrue -          As if the sum of joy to you     Were hunt and picnic, rout and ball.     Your eyes met mine:    I did not blame;          You saw it:    but I touched too near          Some noble nerve; a silent tear     Spoke soft reproach, and lofty shame.     I do not wish those words unsaid.          Unspoilt by praise and pleasure, you          In that one look to woman grew,     While with a child, I thought, I played.     Next to mine own beloved so long!          I have not spent my heart in vain.          I watched the blade; I see the grain;     A woman's soul, most soft, yet strong.     Eversley, 1856.

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Charles Kingsley

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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