| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1720. God’s Will |
| | | By Robert Louis Munger |
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| I KNOW, I know where violets blow | |
| Upon a sweet hillside, | |
| And very bashfully they grow | |
| And in the grasses hide— | |
| It is the fairest field, I trow, | 5 |
| In the whole world wide. | |
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| One spring I saw two lassies go, | |
| Brown cheek and laughing eye; | |
| They swung their aprons to and fro, | |
| They filled them very high | 10 |
| With violets—then whispered low | |
| So strange, I wondered why. | |
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| I know where violet tendrils creep | |
| And crumbled tombstones lie, | |
| The green churchyard is silence-deep; | 15 |
| The village folk go by, | |
| And lassies laugh and women weep, | |
| And God knows why. | |
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