Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
“To me Thou Cam’st”
By Theodore Parker (1810–1860)[From his Note-Book in the possession of Mr. Frank B. Sanborn. Composed in the Winter of 1853–4.]
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When youthful day must sadly disappear;
A star prophetic in a world of night,
Revealing what a heaven of love was near;
And full of rapture at thy joyous sight,
I journeyed fearless on the starlight way;
A thousand other lights came forth on hight,
But queenliest of all still shone thy ray:
O blessed lamp of Beauty and of Love,
How long I’ve felt thy shining far away!
Now, when the morn has chased the shadows gray,
Still guided by thy memory forth I rove.
I’ll journey on, till dark still lighter prove,
And Star and Pilgrim meet where all is Day.