Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Key Notes (1879). I. MorningLouisa S. Guggenberger (18451895)
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Nature and its being by?
There is effort all the morning
Thro’ the windy sea and sky.
That the All may let it be:
Force, in unity, at variance
With its own diversity.
Force, persistent to restrain,
In a twofold, one-souled wrestle
Forging Being’s freedom-chain.
Tosses back a mane of spray?
No; but haste of earnest effort;
Nature works in guise of play.
Swings the to and fro of strife;
Till an awful equilibrium
Stills it, beats the Heart of Life.
Nature and its being by?
Effort, effort all the morning,
Thro’ the sea and windy sky.