| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1313. Come Slowly, Paradise |
| | | By James Benjamin Kenyon |
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| O DAWN upon me slowly, Paradise! | |
| Come not too suddenly, | |
| Lest my just-opened, unaccustomed eyes | |
| Smitten with blindness be. | |
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| To those who from Time’s penury and woe | 5 |
| Rise to thy heights afar, | |
| Down which the floods of glory fall and flow, | |
| Too great thy splendors are. | |
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| So grow upon me slowly; sweetly break | |
| Across death’s silent deep, | 10 |
| Till to thy morning brightness I shall wake | |
| As one from happy sleep. | |
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