John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson. (18301885)
1 All lost things are in the angels keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.
At last.
2 Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days: I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways. I know each day will bring its task, And being blind no more I ask.
Spinning.
3 On the kings gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They called him dead And made his eldest son one day Slave in his fathers stead.
Coronation.
4 Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun.
A last Prayer.
5 The voice of one who goes before, to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May!
May.