| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 285. The New World |
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| THE NIGHT that has no star lit up by God, | |
| The day that round men shines who still are blind, | |
| The earth their grave-turned feet for ages trod, | |
| And sea swept over by His mighty wind, | |
| All these have passed away, the melting dream | 5 |
| That flitted o’er the sleeper’s half-shut eye, | |
| When touched by morning’s golden-darting beam; | |
| And he beholds around the earth and sky | |
| That ever real stands, the rolling shores | |
| And heaving billows of the boundless main, | 10 |
| That show, though time is past, no trace of years. | |
| And earth restored he sees as his again, | |
| The earth that fades not and the heavens that stand, | |
| Their strong foundations laid by God’s right hand. | |
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