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 Prospect of Death
By Ann Eliza Bleecker (17521783)[From The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker. 1793.]
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Though dreadful unto shivering sense,
I feel my nature tottering o’er
Thy gloomy waves, which loudly roar:
Immense the scene, yet dark the view,
Nor Reason darts her vision through.
Virtue! supreme of earthly good,
O let thy rays illume the road;
And when dashed from the precipice,
Keep me from sinking in the seas;
Thy radiant wings then wide expand,
And bear me to celestial land.