Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong <br />The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please <br />Ears tuned to strains of loftier thoughts than throng <br /> Songs light as these. <br /> <br />Yet grace may set their sometime doubt at ease, <br />Nor need their too rash reverence fear to wrong <br />The shrine it serves at and the hope it sees. <br /> <br />For childlike loves and laughters thence prolong <br />Notes that bid enter, fearless as the breeze, <br />Even to the shrine of holiest-hearted song, <br /> Songs light as these.<br /><br />Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dedication-to-christina-g-rossetti/
