Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
VI. Human ExperienceDuty
Ellen Sturgis Hooper (18121848)I
I woke and found that life was Duty:
Was then thy dream a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A noonday light and truth to thee.