George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
The Voice of the PineCharles Timothy Brooks (18131883)
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?