| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1291. Love and Death |
| | | By Margaret Deland |
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| ALAS! that men must see | |
| Love, before Death! | |
| Else they content might be | |
| With their short breath; | |
| Aye, glad, when the pale sun | 5 |
| Showed restless Day was done, | |
| And endless Rest begun. | |
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| Glad, when with strong, cool hand | |
| Death clasped their own, | |
| And with a strange command | 10 |
| Hushed every moan; | |
| Glad to have finished pain, | |
| And labor wrought in vain, | |
| Blurred by Sin’s deepening stain. | |
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| But Love’s insistent voice | 15 |
| Bids Self to flee— | |
| “Live that I may rejoice, | |
| Live on, for me!” | |
| So, for Love’s cruel mind, | |
| Men fear this Rest to find, | 20 |
| Nor know great Death is kind! | |
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