| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Boulder | | By Louisa Parsons (Stone) Hopkins (1834–1895) |
| | | O’ER the gray boulder seamed and scarred by time | |
| My searching thought its questioning thread would wind, | |
| The secret of these crevices to find, | |
| Lettered in creeping lichen’s crusting rime. | |
| And while I trace each deep mysterious line | 5 |
| Of subtle force that shaped the cleavage grand | |
| And fitted block to block with master-hand | |
| I read the hieroglyphs of thought divine: | |
| Record of æons by God’s finger graved; | |
| Of fire and glacier, crystallizing laws, | 10 |
| Atoms obedient to a central cause, | |
| All patient power for endless purpose saved;— | |
| I, but one grain of dust upon earth’s sphere, | |
| Make altar of the rock and worship here. | | | | |
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