goodnight sweetmaid

kate dicey used a quote on may 29th in her artical curtain call goodnight sweetmaid and those who are clever,........... is there any one who can tell me where the quote comes from and who wrote it its important to me as it is a quote my mother used dave

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dave h
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It's from a poem by Charles Kingsley, and goes

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; and so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song."

Never cared for the sentiment myself, but then the author was a Victorian.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

'Good night, sweet maid, And let who will be cleaver... ' My dad used to send me to bed with his version of a quote from Charles Kingsley:

A Farewell

I My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day.

II 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.

-- Charles Kingsley

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Kate Dicey

The Victorians were nothing if not sentimental. But it's also the kind of thing one would say to a small female child. Heavens save us from a clever one! When I was in second grade, I organized all the kids in my class to stop up the drains in the school, then turn on all the water to see what would happen...... I was not a "good, sweet maid".....

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Pogonip

Me neither! Helped most if the kids from the village school build a dam across the water meadow and make a pond... The cows made a fuss when their water vanished!

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Kate Dicey

We were budding scientists!!

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Pogonip

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