| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | Sonnet | | By Henriette de Saussure Blanding |
| | | BECAUSE your thoughts have made my flowers more fair, | |
| My sun more golden and my heaven more blue, | |
| Have made me feel that Nature still is true | |
| Beneath the hostile frown she oft doth wear; | |
| Because your song has taught my lips to sing | 5 |
| With gladness, that were dumb; because your heart | |
| Divined the secret of life’s highest Art— | |
| Beauty is touch of cloud in everything— | |
| Because your faith has raised me from the cares | |
| Of blackest Doubt to Hope’s all radiant beams, | 10 |
| Revealed the truth of all my fading dreams, | |
| Inspired my loves and purified my prayers; | |
| Because your trust in man’s divinity | |
| Has saved my soul, I give my all to thee. | | | | |
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