James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
July 10The Tower of Flame
By Richard Watson Gilder (18441909)
H
Whatever of beauty is in all the earth;
The priceless flower of art, the loveliest, rarest,
Here by our inland ocean came to glorious birth.
Shed its celestial light on all men’s eyes:
Flower of the hero-soul,—consummate, tender,—
That from the tower of flame sprang to the eternal skies.