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George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.

Stanzas: ‘Of the heaven is generation’

Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)

OF the heaven is generation:

Fruition in the deep earth lies:

And where the twain have broadest blending,

The stateliest growths of life arise.

Set, then, thy root in earth more firmly:

Raise thy head erect and free:

And spread thy loving arms so widely,

That heaven and earth shall meet in thee.