| Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (18381915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912. |
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| Richard Watson Gilder. 18441909 |
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| 218. Noël |
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| STAR-DUST and vaporous light, | |
| The mist of worlds unborn, | |
| A shuddering in the awful night | |
| Of winds that bring the morn. | |
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| Now comes the dawn: the circling earth; | 5 |
| Creatures that fly and crawl; | |
| And Man, that last, imperial birth; | |
| And Christ, the flower of all. | |
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