Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

By Thomas BaileyAldrich

683 Appreciation

TO the sea-shell’s spiral round

’T is your heart that brings the sound:

The soft sea-murmurs that you hear

Within, are captured from your ear.

You do poets and their song

A grievous wrong,

If your own soul does not bring

To their high imagining

As much beauty as they sing.