Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | Carlyle and Emerson | | Montgomery Schuyler (1843–1914) |
| | | A BALE-FIRE kindled in the night, | |
| By night a blaze, by day a cloud, | |
| With flame and smoke all England woke,— | |
| It climbed so high, it roared so loud: | |
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| While over Massachusetts’ pines | 5 |
| Uprose a white and steadfast star; | |
| And many a night it hung unwatched,— | |
| It shone so still, it seemed so far. | |
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| But Light is Fire, and Fire is Light; | |
| And mariners are glad for these,— | 10 |
| The torch that flares along the coast, | |
| The star that beams above the seas. | | | | |
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