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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Florence EarleCoates

1063 India

SILENT amidst unbroken silence deep

Of dateless years, in loneliness supreme,

She pondered patiently one mighty theme,

And let the hours, uncounted, by her creep

The motionless Himalayas, the broad sweep

Of glacial cataracts, great Ganges’ stream,—

All these to her were but as things that seem,

Doomed all to pass, like phantoms viewed in sleep.

Her history? She has none,—scarce a name.

The life she lived is lost in the profound

Of time, which she despised; but nothing mars

The memory that, single, gives her fame:

She dreamed eternal dreams, and from the ground

Still raised her yearning vision to the stars.