| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 1 | | Destiny | | By Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| | | BORN to the purple, lying stark and dead, | |
| Transfixed with poisoned spears, beneath the sun | |
| Of brazen Africa! Thy grave is one, | |
| Fore-fated youth (on whom were visited | |
| Follies and sins not thine), whereat the world, | 5 |
| Heartless howe’er it be, will pause to sing | |
| A dirge, to breathe a sigh, a wreath to fling | |
| Of rosemary and rue with bay-leaves curled. | |
| Enmeshed in toils ambitious, not thine own, | |
| Immortal, loved boy-prince, thou tak’st thy stand | 10 |
| With early doomed Don Carlos, hand in hand | |
| With mild-browed Arthur, Geoffrey’s murdered son. | |
| Louis the Dauphin lifts his thorn-ringed head, | |
| And welcomes thee, his brother, ’mongst the dead. | | | | |
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