Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
A Mariposa Lily
By Milicent Washburn Shinn (18581940)S
Hid in long grass up the mountain-side,
Where the loud brown torrent’s roar comes duller,
And in simple gladness you abide,—
Thus I take to please her for one hour?—
Yet I ask of you no greater giving
Than of mine own self, poor wasted flower.