Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | Acknowledgment II |
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| | | NOW 1 at thy soft recalling voice I rise | |
| Where thought is lord o’er Time’s complete estate, | |
| Like as a dove from out the gray sedge flies | |
| To tree-tops green where cooes his heavenly mate. | |
| From these clear coverts high and cool I see | 5 |
| How every time with every time is knit, | |
| And each to all is mortised cunningly, | |
| And none is sole or whole, yet all are fit. | |
| Thus, if this Age but as a comma show | |
| ’Twixt weightier clauses of large-worded years, | 10 |
| My calmer soul scorns not the mark: I know | |
| This crooked point Time’s complex sentence clears. | |
| Yet more I learn while, Friend! I sit by thee: | |
| Who sees all time, sees all eternity. | |
| | | Note 1. Lanier. Acknowledgment II. From ‘Poems of Sidney Lanier’. New York. Scribner. 1889, p. 77. [back] | | |
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