Psyche, and other poems — page 235: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a page of running poetry text, numbered 217, appearing near the end of a work. The six lines present a rhyming couplet passage in elevated language, addressing someone directly ("thee," "thy") with promises of future peace and happiness. The verse celebrates freedom from enemies, rest, hope, freedom from suffering, familial joy, and the blooming of gardens or estates. The language and sentiment are typical of Victorian sentimental or melodramatic verse, though whether this concludes a narrative, serves as moral instruction, or represents something else in the penny dreadful's story cannot be determined from this page alone.