| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 548. Ariana |
| | | By Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
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| SWEET saint! whose rising dawned upon the sight | |
| Like fair Aurora chasing mists away, | |
| Our ocean billows, and thy western height | |
| Gave back reflections of the tender ray, | |
| Sparkling and smiling as night turned to day:— | 5 |
| Ah! whither vanished that celestial light? | |
| Suns rise and set, Monadnoc’s amethyst | |
| Year-long above the sullen cloud appears, | |
| Daily the waves our summer strand have kissed, | |
| But thou returnest not with days and years: | 10 |
| Or is it thine, yon clear and beckoning star, | |
| Seen o’er the hills that guarded once thy home? | |
| Dost guide thy friend’s free steps that widely roam | |
| Toward that far country where his wishes are? | |
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