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

By Grace ElleryChanning-Stetson

1654 A Song of Arno

IT is the hour when Arno turns

Her gold to chrysoprase;

When each low-hanging star outburns

Its faint, mysterious rays,

As from the prison of faery urns

Which faery hands upraise.

It is the hour when life’s constraint

A moment’s ease is given;

When Earth is like a holy saint,

Stilled, sanctified, and shriven,

And the deep-breathing heart grows faint

To be so near to Heaven.