Charles Kingsley (b.1819, d.1875) was born at Holne, Devonshire, England.
He took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge in 1842, and soon after entered
the Church. His writings are quite voluminous, including sermons,
lectures, novels, fairy tales, and poems, published in book form, besides
numerous miscellaneous sermons and magazine articles. He was an earnest
worker for bettering the condition of the working classes, and this object
was the basis of most of his writings. As a lyric poet he has gained a
high place. The "Saint's Tragedy" and "Andromeda" are the most pretentious
of his poems, and "Alton Locke" and "Hypatia" are his best known novels.


1. "O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
Across the sands o' Dee!"
The western wind was wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.

2. The creeping tide came up along the sand,
And o'er and o'er the sand,
And round and round the sand,
As far as eye could see;
The blinding mist came down and hid the land--
And never home came she.

3. Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair?--
A tress o' golden hair,
O' drowned maiden's hair,
Above the nets at sea.