Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
The Voice of the Pine
By Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883)[Born in Salem, Mass., 1813. Died at Newport, R. I., 1883. Poems, Original and Translated. 1885.]
O
Old grim, gigantic, gloomy pine!
What is there in that voice of thine
That thrills so deep this heart of mine?
Old years and voices long gone by,
And feelings that can never die,
Come thronging back on memory?
My listening spirit hears once more
The trumpet-music of the host
Of billows round my native coast?
Of that more vast and dread profound,—
The soul’s unfathomable sea,
The ocean of eternity?