| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 770. Recognition |
| | | By John White Chadwick |
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| WHEN souls that have put off their mortal gear | |
| Stand in the pure, sweet light of heaven’s day, | |
| And wondering deeply what to do or say, | |
| And trembling more with rapture than with fear, | |
| Desire some token of their friends most dear, | 5 |
| Who there some time have made their happy stay, | |
| And much have longed for them to come that way, | |
| What shall it be, this sign of hope and cheer? | |
| Shall it be tone of voice or glance of eye? | |
| Shall it be touch of hand or gleam of hair | 10 |
| Blown back from spirit-brows by heaven’s air,— | |
| Things which of old we knew our dearest by? | |
| Oh, naught of this; but, if our love is true, | |
| Some secret sense shall cry, ’T is you and—you! | |
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