Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By MontgomerySchuyler

1455 Carlyle and Emerson

A BALE-FIRE kindled in the night,

By night a blaze, by day a cloud,

With flame and smoke all England woke,—

It climbed so high, it roared so loud:

While over Massachusetts’ pines

Uprose a white and steadfast star;

And many a night it hung unwatched,—

It shone so still, it seemed so far.

But Light is Fire, and Fire is Light;

And mariners are glad for these,—

The torch that flares along the coast,

The star beams above the seas.