Took Her Fill Of Music

Took her fill of music, joy of thought and seeing
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.

Margot Whitington

This is from a poem/verse by Robert Lewis Stevenson, from A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913. The poem XXVII. In Memoriam F. A. S.
This particular reference is from the second verse:
"Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring, a being
Trod the flowery April blithely for awhile,
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile".

The full poem below:
YET, O stricken heart, remember, O remember
How of human days he lived the better part.
April came to bloom and never dim December
Breathed its killing chills upon the head or heart.

Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring, a being
Trod the flowery April blithely for awhile,
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.

Came and stayed and went, and now when all is finished,
You alone have crossed the melancholy stream,
Yours the pang, but his, O his, the undiminished
Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream.

All that life contains of torture, toil, and treason,
Shame, dishonour, death, to him were but a name.
Here, a boy, he dwelt through all the singing season
And ere the day of sorrow departed as he came.
DAVOS, 1881.

This is a beautiful peom of losing someone too young.