| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Re-awakening | | By Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| | | WITHIN a spot where slept the silent dead, | |
| I wandered once when spring had kissed the earth, | |
| And set around its breast an emerald girth | |
| Of grass, entangling roses white and red; | |
| Among the leafy branches overhead | 5 |
| The mating robins twittered in their mirth,— | |
| All nature seemed rejoicing in new birth | |
| Beneath the canopy the blue skies spread: | |
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| And as I sat beside one mossy stone | |
| Kissed by a hundred suns of summer skies, | 10 |
| A sudden joy came to my heart, alone | |
| Among those graves, to think the dead shall rise | |
| In God’s eternal spring when sounds are blown | |
| On angels’ instruments in Paradise! | | | | |
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