| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 956. The Druid |
| | | By John Banister Tabb |
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| 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 | 5 |
| 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 | 10 |
| 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. | |
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