Posthumous Poems/To a Leeds Poet

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

TO A LEEDS POET

(J. W. INCHBOLD)

If far beyond the shadow of the sleep
 A place there be for souls without a stain;
Where peace is perfect and delight more deep
 Than seas or skies that change and shine again,

There, none of all unsullied souls that live
 May hold a surer station, none may lend
More light to Hope or Memory's lamp, nor give
 More joys than Thine to those that called Thee Friend.

1888.