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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By James BenjaminKenyon

1313 Come Slowly, Paradise

O DAWN upon me slowly, Paradise!

Come not too suddenly,

Lest my just-opened, unaccustomed eyes

Smitten with blindness be.

To those who from Time’s penury and woe

Rise to thy heights afar,

Down which the floods of glory fall and flow,

Too great thy splendors are.

So grow upon me slowly; sweetly break

Across death’s silent deep,

Till to thy morning brightness I shall wake

As one from happy sleep.