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
Perpetuity
By Clinton Scollard (18601932)L
“Who now will sing our songs?” men cried at morn.
Faint hearts, fear not! Somewhere, though far away,
At that same hour another bard was born.