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

Art and Artist

Caroline Sturgis Tappan (1819–1888)

WITH dauntless eye the lofty one

Moves on through life;

Majestic as the mighty sun

He knows no strife.

He sees the thought flow to the form,

And rise like bubble bright;

A moment of beauty,—and it is gone,

Dissolved in light.