Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley, English novelist
Charles Kingsley (July 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country.
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- So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard’s liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.
- Yeast: A Problem, ch. 5 (1848)
- O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee;
The western wind was wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.- The Sands of Dee, st. 1 (1849)
- They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel crawling foam,
The cruel hungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea:
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee.- The Sands of Dee, st. 4
- For men must work, and women must weep,
And there ’s little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.- The Three Fishers, st. 1 (1851)
- And the sooner it ’s over, the sooner to sleep—
And good-by to the bar and its moaning.- The Three Fishers, st. 3
- Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.- A Farewell, st. 2 (1856)
- Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
- Sermon, The Meteor Shower (November 26, 1866)
- Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.
- Sermon, The Meteor Shower
- For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
- Health and Education, The Science of Health (1874)
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Water Babies (1863)
- Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.- Song I, st. 1
- When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.- Song II, st. 1
- God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young.- Song II, st. 2
- And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I shall be, till people behave themselves as they ought to do. And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister, who is the loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby. So she begins where I end, and I begin where she ends; and those who will not listen to her must listen to me, as you will see.
- Ch. 5
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