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Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891.

The Air

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson (1848–1895)

INVISIBLE enchanter, sweet and strong,

That crumblest mountains in thy soft embrace,

That rock’st the feathered seed through sun-lit space

And lull’st the sea with thy caressing song;

How lightly dost thou dance the waves among,

And wingest them for flight of fitful grace,

And in the cloud-rack’s path which none can trace

Dispersing cheer the parchéd earth along!

My voice thou bearest over dale and hill

And spread’st in viewless billows near and far;

And with a subtler undulation still

Thou tremblest with the light of farthest star,

And holdest lightly, hovering on high,

The bright phantasmal bridge from earth to sky.