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
Paradisi Gloria
By Thomas William Parsons (18191892)[From Circum Præcordia: The Collects of the Holy Catholic Church. 1892.]
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And unapproachable by sea or shore;
And unassailable by any band
Of storming soldiery for evermore.
By acts or pleasures,—doing petty things
Of work or warfare, merchandise or rhyme;
But we shall sit beside the silver springs
Sages and martyrs, and those blessed few
Who loved us once and were beloved of old,
To dwell with them and walk with them anew,
Musical motion,—the perpetual play
Of every faculty that Heaven bestows
Through the bright, busy, and eternal day.