| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1344. Man in Nature |
| | | By William Roscoe Thayer (“Paul Hermes”) |
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| CLIMBING up the hillside beneath the summer stars | |
| I listen to the murmur of the drowsy ebbing sea; | |
| The newly-risen moon has loosed her silver zone | |
| On the undulating waters where the ships are sailing free. | |
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| O moon, and O stars, and O drowsy summer sea. | 5 |
| Drawing thy tide from the city up the bay, | |
| I know how you will look and what your bounds must be, | |
| When we and our sons have forever passed away. | |
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| You shall not change, but a nobler race of men | |
| Shall walk beneath the stars and wander by the shore; | 10 |
| I cannot guess their glory, but I think the sky and sea | |
| Will bring to them more gladness than they brought to us of yore. | |
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