Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets (1882). III. At Sabbath DawnLouisa S. Guggenberger (18451895)
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A smoke-wreathed scene of care,
To-day the dust of toil is laid,
And children are at prayer.
And now I gladly spend
A time of quietness with you,
My patient, faithful friend.
And midnights meteor-lit—
But never this most placed heaven,
With heart-peace under it.
Yet is your presence best;
Safe in your firm and quiet hand
My hasty pulses rest.
And ebbed, alas! too fast,
Breathless and spent, I cast me down
On tideless shores at last.
I know it to be rest;
The sabbath of my life has dawned,
And I am very blest.