| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 991. Iter Supremum |
| | | By Arthur Sherburne Hardy |
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| OH, what a night for a soul to go! | |
| The wind a hawk, and the fields in snow; | |
| No screening cover of leaves in the wood, | |
| Nor a star abroad the way to show. | |
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| Do they part in peace,—soul with its clay? | 5 |
| Tenant and landlord, what do they say? | |
| Was it sigh of sorrow or of release | |
| I heard just now as the face turned gray? | |
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| What if, aghast on the shoreless main | |
| Of Eternity, it sought again | 10 |
| The shelter and rest of the isle of Time, | |
| And knocked at the door of its house of pain! | |
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| On the tavern hearth the embers glow, | |
| The laugh is deep, and the flagons low; | |
| But without, the wind and the trackless sky, | 15 |
| And night at the gates where a soul would go. | |
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