| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Invisible Land | | By Andrew Bice Saxton |
| | | THERE was a land that lay beyond my sight | |
| For which I vainly searched the great earth through. | |
| Thither, right often, my companions flew | |
| At day-break, or at noontide, or at night, | |
| And never came again. I took my flight, | 5 |
| Explored all portions of the globe, yet grew | |
| No nearer where that mighty retinue | |
| Had fled into the stately fields of light. | |
| But once, when evening her dusk sails had spread, | |
| And I was sleeping, a swift dream came o’er | 10 |
| My spirit, and in it I rising said, | |
| “Now is the country mine, long sought before!” | |
| And one I heard lament that I was dead; | |
| And lo! the land stretched just beside my door! | | | | |
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