| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1315. The Human Plan |
| | | By Charles Henry Crandall |
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| CHILD, weary of thy baubles of to-day— | |
| Child with the golden or the silver hair— | |
| Say, how wouldst thou have built creation’s stair, | |
| Hadst thou been free to have thy puny way? | |
| Could thy intelligence have shot the ray | 5 |
| That lit the universe of upper air? | |
| Wouldst thou have bid the surging stars to dare | |
| Their glorious flight and never stop nor stay? | |
| Yet, casting on this life thy weak disdain, | |
| Thou triest to guess thy lot in loftier places, | 10 |
| To draw the heaven of our human need; | |
| A door of rest, a flash of wings, a strain | |
| Of ’trancing music, and the long-lost faces! | |
| But, after all, what may be Heaven indeed? | |
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