George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
The Light from withinJones Very (18131880)
I
Than that which lit my eye
Come forth as from my soul within,
And from a higher sky.
When in the farthest west
The sun I once had known had sunk
Forever to his rest.
Nor rose his orb by day;
As one who by a surer guide
Was pointed out the way.
It shone from God within,
And lit, as by a lamp from heaven,
The world’s dark track of sin.