| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1501. “If Spirits Walk” |
| | | By Sophie Jewett (“Ellen Burroughs”) |
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| IF spirits walk, love, when the night climbs slow | |
| The slant footpath where we were wont to go, | |
| Be sure that I shall take the selfsame way | |
| To the hill-crest, and shoreward, down the gray, | |
| Sheer, gravelled slope, where vetches straggling grow. | 5 |
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| Look for me not when gusts of winter blow, | |
| When at thy pane beat hands of sleet and snow; | |
| I would not come thy dear eyes to affray, | |
| If spirits walk. | |
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| But when, in June, the pines are whispering low, | 10 |
| And when their breath plays with thy bright hair so | |
| As some one’s fingers once were used to play— | |
| That hour when birds leave song, and children pray, | |
| Keep the old tryst, sweetheart, and thou shalt know | |
| If spirits walk. | 15 |
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