| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 308. Hymn of the Earth |
| | | By William Ellery Channing |
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| MY highway is unfeatured air, | |
| My consorts are the sleepless Stars, | |
| And men my giant arms upbear,— | |
| My arms unstained and free from scars. | |
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| I rest forever on my way, | 5 |
| Rolling around the happy Sun; | |
| My children love the sunny day, | |
| But noon and night to me are one. | |
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| My heart has pulses like their own, | |
| I am their Mother, and my veins, | 10 |
| Though built of the enduring stone, | |
| Thrill as do theirs with godlike pains. | |
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| The forests and the mountains high, | |
| The foaming ocean and the springs, | |
| The plains,—O pleasant Company, | 15 |
| My voice through all your anthem rings! | |
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| Ye are so cheerful in your minds, | |
| Content to smile, content to share: | |
| My being in your chorus finds | |
| The echo of the spheral air. | 20 |
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| No leaf may fall, no pebble roll, | |
| No drop of water lose the road; | |
| The issues of the general Soul | |
| Are mirrored in its round abode. | |
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