Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Illusions | | Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
| | | GO stand at night upon an ocean craft, | |
| And watch the folds of its imperial train | |
| Catching in fleecy foam a thousand glows— | |
| A miracle of fire unquenched by sea. | |
| There in bewildering turbulence of change | 5 |
| Whirls the whole firmament, till as you gaze, | |
| All else unseen, it is as heaven itself | |
| Had lost its poise, and each unanchored star | |
| In phantom haste flees to the horizon line. | |
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| What dupes we are of the deceiving eye! | 10 |
| How many a light men wonderingly acclaim | |
| Is but the phosphor of the path Life makes | |
| With its own motion, while above, forgot, | |
| Sweep on serene the old unenvious stars! | | | | |
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