| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 757. Recollection |
| | | By Amelia Walstien Carpenter |
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| A SILVER birch-tree like a sacred maid | |
| Set with a guard of stalwart hemlocks round, | |
| Whose low-toned airs stole by with sighing sound, | |
| Stirred, shivering slightly, as if half afraid | |
| Where the black shadow crept along the ground. | 5 |
| Breathless she stood,—as one whose work is stayed, | |
| But threads her shuttle while her thought has strayed | |
| To times when wild fauns haunted all the rills, | |
| And piped among the deep noon-checkered hills | |
| Till all the land with song was overlaid. | 10 |
| O Pan, dear Pan! come forth from out the dark | |
| Of those dream days; outsing our thrush and lark | |
| Till laughter-loving youths from windowsills | |
| Shall whisper, “Hark! who sang that love-song? Hark!” | |
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