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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Thekla’s Song

Anonymous

THE CLOUDS are flying, the woods are sighing,

A maiden is walking the grassy shore,

And as the wave breaks with might, with might,

She singeth aloud in the darksome night,

But a tear is in her troubled eye.

For the world feels cold, and the heart gets old,

And reflects the bright aspect of Nature no more;

Then take back thy child, holy Virgin, to thee!

I have plucked the one blossom that hangs on earth’s tree,

I have lived, and have loved, and die.