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
Memories
By John Esten Cooke (18301886)T
Far on ancestral trees,
On the bright-booted bees,
On cattle-dotting leas;
And a mist is in my eyes—
For in a stranger land
Halts the quick-running sand,
Shaken by no dear hand!
The sunset-flooded door;
I hear the river’s roar
Say clearly “Nevermore.”
I see the cloud-shadows pass
Over my mountain meres:
Gone are the rose-bright years,
Drowned in a sea of tears.