Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Western States | | A Mirage of the West | | John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| | Land in Cloud
ABOVE the sunken sun the clouds are fired | |
| With a dark splendor: the enchanted hour | |
| Works momentary miracles in the sky; | |
| Weird shadows take from fancy what they lack | |
| For semblance, and I see a boundless plain, | 5 |
| A mist of sun and sheaves in boundless air, | |
| Gigantic shapes of reapers moving slow | |
| In some new harvest: so I can but dream | |
| Of my great Land, that takes its morning star | |
| Out of the dusky evening of the east, | 10 |
| My Land, that lifted into vision gleams | |
| Misty and vast, a boundless plain afar | |
| (Like yonder fading fantasy of cloud), | |
| With shadowy reapers moving, vague and slow, | |
| In some wide harvest of the days to be,— | 15 |
| A mist of sun and sheaves in boundless air! | | | | |
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