That at edge of dark, with the song of the lark, tells that the world is alive:
The master starts on his errand, his tread is heavy and slow.
Yet he cannot choose but tell the news - the bees have a right to know.
Bound by the ties of a happier day, they are one with us now in our worst:
On the very morn that my boy was born, they were told the tidings the first:
With what pride they will bear of the end, he made and the ordeal that he trod?
If the scream of shell, and the venom of hell, and the flame of the sword of God.
Wise little heralds, tell of my boy; In your golden tabard coals,
Tell the bank where he slept, and the stream lie leapt, where the spangled lily floats:
The tree he climbed shall lift her head, and the torrent he swam shall thrill.
And the tempest that bore his shout before shall cry his message still.
In Westminster Gazette. 