Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By Arthur SherburneHardy991 Iter Supremum
O
The wind a hawk, and the fields in snow;
No screening cover of leaves in the wood,
Nor a star abroad the way to show.
Tenant and landlord, what do they say?
Was it sigh of sorrow or of release
I heard just now as the face turned gray?
Of Eternity, it sought again
The shelter and rest of the isle of Time,
And knocked at the door of its house of pain!
The laugh is deep, and the flagons low;
But without, the wind and the trackless sky,
And night at the gates where a soul would go.