| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1679. The Deathless |
| | | By Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes |
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| WHAT charlatans in this later day | |
| Beat at the gates of Art! | |
| Each with his trick of speech or brush,— | |
| Forgetting, that apart | |
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| From all the brawling of an age, | 5 |
| Its feverish fantasy, | |
| She waits, who only unto Time | |
| The soul of Art sets free! | |
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| God’s handmaid Beauty,—whose touch rounds | |
| A dewdrop or a world,— | 10 |
| God-sprung when first through Chaos’ night | |
| The morning wings unfurled; | |
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| Beauty,—who still the secret gives | |
| Whispered the ages through,— | |
| Recurrent as the flush of dawn, | 15 |
| Essential as the dew. | |
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| O babblers of some surer guide!— | |
| Knowledge goes changing by; | |
| Caprice may bloom its little hour, | |
| And creeds are born and die; | 20 |
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| Still Melos on her worshippers | |
| Looks with calm-lidded eyes; | |
| Still Helen, though Troy sleeps in dust, | |
| Smiles through the centuries; | |
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| Still she who gleaned on Judah’s plain | 25 |
| Love in her sheaves doth bind; | |
| Still, down the glades of Arden, dance | |
| The feet of Rosalind. | |
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