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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By John BanisterTabb

956 The Druid

GODLIKE beneath his grave divinities,

The last of all their worshippers, he stood.

The shadows of a vanished multitude

Enwound him, and their voices in the breeze

Made murmur, while the meditative trees

Reared of their strong fraternal branches rude

A temple meet for prayer. What blossoms strewed

The path between Life’s morning hours and these?

What lay beyond the darkness? He alone

The sunshine and the shadow and the dew

Had shared alike with leaf, and flower, and stem:

Their life had been his lesson; and from them

A dream of immortality he drew,

As in their fate foreshadowing his own.