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
Therell Come a Day
By Margaret Junkin Preston (18201897)T
Of earth, or sky, or sea,
Whate’er their miracles, sublime or tender,
Will wake no joy in me.
Now with such fervor fraught
As lifts to heights of breathless exaltation,
Will seem a thing of naught.
Music and song and art,
Will look like puppets in a worn-out story,
Where each has played his part.
Gift that includes the whole
Of God’s grand giving—sovereignest, completest—
Shall fail to fill my soul.
The cloud across my sight,
If only, lark-like, from earth’s nested grasses,
I spring to meet its light.