George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
Rumors from an Æolian HarpHenry David Thoreau (18171862)
T
Where foot of man has never been,
Such as here lives with toil and strife,
An anxious and a sinful life.
Ere it descends upon the earth,
And thither every deed returns,
Which in the generous bosom burns.
And poetry is yet unsung,
For Virtue still adventures there,
And freely breathes her native air.
You still may hear its vesper bell,
And tread of high-souled men go by,
Their thoughts conversing with the sky.