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
To the Moon
By Margaretta V. Faugeres (17711801)W
Thy trackless steps pursue their silent way,
And from among the starry host of even
Thou shed’st o’er slumbering earth a milder day;
And when thou pourest abroad thy shadowy light
Across the ridgy circles of the stream,
With raptured eyes, O changeful nymph of night!
I gaze upon thy beam.
That marked the precincts of thy steady wheel,
That bade thee smile on Night’s oblivious noon,
And rule old Ocean’s solemn swell;
Great was the Power, that filled with radiant light
Those worlds unnumbered which from pole to pole
Hang out their golden lamps to deck thy flight,
Or gild the planets which around thee roll.