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For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes.
--
The Lark Ascending, l. 65-70 (1881).

 

George Meredith

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