Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.
Richard Watson Gilder 18441909
Richard Watson Gilder219 Songs
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Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.
And I know thee as water is known of thirst; Yet I knew thee of old at the first sweet sight, And thou art strange to me, Love, to-night.
Years have flown since I knew thee first,