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
Enfoldings
By Mary Mapes Dodge (18311905)T
The avalanche suddenly rushing with darkness and death to the hamlet.
The pitiless horror of light in the sun-smitten reach of the desert.
The despair of the wilderness tangle, and treacherous thicket of forest.
The hurricane crashing its way through the homes and the life of the valley.
The town or the prairie consumed in a terrible, hissing combustion.
The roar and the fury of ocean, a limitless maelstrom of ruin.
The passion that maddens, and shows how God may be thrust from His creatures.
For this when the storm beats me down my soul groweth bolder and bolder.