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
Waiting
By John Burroughs (18371921)S
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more ’gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown,
And garner up its fruit of tears.
The brook that springs in yonder height;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.