Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

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1552 The Soul

AN heritage of hopes and fears

And dreams and memory,

And vices of ten thousand years

God gives to thee.

A house of clay, the home of Fate,

Haunted of Love and Sin,

Where Death stands knocking at the gate

To let him in.