| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Emerson | | By Wilbur Larremore (1855–1918) |
| | | TO thee the prayer of all was granted—Light! | |
| Thou hast felt life-warmth through the age’s rime, | |
| Hast pierced the mask of flesh, the veil of time, | |
| That heart from heart and soul from soul benight. | |
| And whoso kens thy word to man aright | 5 |
| Finds in the world a spiritual clime, | |
| Beholds the Present as a land sublime, | |
| Peopled with beings of heroic height. | |
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| To eras gone their prophet-seers have brought | |
| God’s new-born truth to feed a hungering race; | 10 |
| And thou, like those of old, hast read His thought | |
| Writ in the stars by night;—His secret place, | |
| The solemn forest, thou by day hast sought, | |
| And heard His voice through boughs that hid His face. | | | | |
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