| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | May 25 | | Emerson | | By Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941) |
| | | | Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803. |
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VOICE of the deeps thou art! But not the wild, | |
| Ungoverned mouthing of the wind-lashed waves; | |
| Nor yet the dirge of billows over graves, | |
| But crooning, like a mother o’er her child. | |
| Through thee gross earth with heaven is reconciled, | 5 |
| Thy songs, like anthems through cathedral naves | |
| Dispel confusing passion; never raves | |
| The storm along thy cloister undefiled. | |
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| Light of the deeps thou art! as forth I glide, | |
| From rock and whirlpool far, and tempest’s roar, | 10 |
| Sudden there looms an ever verdurous shore, | |
| Whose towers in the still wave stand glorified, | |
| Where thou, the Virgil, who hast been my guide, | |
| Lead’st me and leav’st me rapt, at Heaven’s door! | | | |
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