| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 831. Faith’s Vista |
| | | By Henry Abbey |
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| WHEN from the vaulted wonder of the sky | |
| The curtain of the light is drawn aside, | |
| And I behold the stars in all their wide | |
| Significance and glorious mystery, | |
| Assured that those more distant orbs are suns | 5 |
| Round which innumerable worlds revolve,— | |
| My faith grows strong, my day-born doubts dissolve, | |
| And death, that dread annulment which life shuns, | |
| Or fain would shun, becomes to life the way, | |
| The thoroughfare to greater worlds on high, | 10 |
| The bridge from star to star. Seek how we may, | |
| There is no other road across the sky; | |
| And, looking up, I hear star-voices say: | |
| “You could not reach us if you did not die.” | |
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