| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | Objects Which Influence the Ambitious Nature
II. Where Planted | | By William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| | | IT is the error of the impatient heart | |
| To hope undying gifts, even while the strife | |
| Is worst; and struggling ’gainst its mortal part, | |
| The glorious Genius laboring still for life, | |
| Springs even from death to birth! ’T is from his tomb | 5 |
| The amaranth rises which must wreathe his brow, | |
| And crown his memory with unfading bloom; | |
| Rooted in best affections, it will grow, | |
| Though watered by sad tears, and watched by pride | |
| Made humble in rejection! Love denied, | 10 |
| Shall tend it through all seasons, and shall give | |
| Her never-failing tenderness,—though still | |
| Be the proud spirit, and the unyielding will, | |
| That through the mortal made the immortal live! | | | | |
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