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

By Arthur SherburneHardy

990 Immortality

MY window is the open sky,

The flower in farthest wood is mine;

I am the heir to all gone by,

The eldest son of all the line.

And when the robbers Time and Death

Athwart my path conspiring stand,

I cheat them with a clod, a breath,

And pass the sword from hand to hand!