Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Concord (Musketaquid), Mass. | | Hawthorne’s Grave | | Frank Dexter Mason |
| | | TALL pines like sentinels by night and day | |
| Keep watch and ward above his place of rest, | |
| And when the sun has vanished down the west, | |
| And night and darkness hold their mystic sway; | |
| When the pale moon looks down through clouds of gray | 5 |
| On the white city where to sleep addressed | |
| Naught can disturb the dwellers, naught molest; | |
| When all is still, so still that one may pray,— | |
| Then, then those forest veterans, those old trees | |
| Standing on guard for many a long, long year, | 10 |
| Clasp hands, and, pointing where the genius lies | |
| And has so long lain undisturbed at ease, | |
| They say, “Does not the time at length draw near? | |
| Long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?” | | | | |
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