| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1442. Aidenn |
| | | By Katrina Trask |
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| HEAVEN is mirrored, Love, deep in thine eyes, | |
| Soft falls its shimmering light upon thy face; | |
| Tell me, Beloved, is this Paradise, | |
| Or but Love’s bower in some deep-sheltered place? | |
| Is that God’s burning bush that now appears, | 5 |
| Or but the sunlight slanting through the tress? | |
| Is that sweet song the music of the spheres, | |
| Or but the deep andante of the breeze? | |
| Are we blest spirits of some glad new birth | |
| Floating at last in God’s eternity? | 10 |
| Or art thou, Love, still but a man on earth, | |
| And I a woman clinging close to thee? | |
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