| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Solitude | | By Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| | “Every man’s imagination hath its friends.”
HE who must lead his life where life began | |
| (Amid the mountains or still inland plains), | |
| If he desire to visit marts and fanes | |
| In storied cities, pilgrim goals of man, | |
| Will oft behold their visionary plan | 5 |
| Sketched in the summer clouds’ slow-moving trains; | |
| Or, longing for the sea, will hear its strains, | |
| When stormy woods break out with praise to Pan. | |
| So, he who lives unfriended and remote, | |
| Hath liberal Fancy serving his desire: | 10 |
| On every wind kind salutations float, | |
| To him addressed; and oft his heart takes fire | |
| At rumor of some masterful emprise, | |
| Wrought on the earth, and anthemed through the skies! | | | | |
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