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Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

Richard Watson Gilder 1844–1909

Richard Watson Gilder

218 Noël

STAR-DUST and vaporous light,—

The mist of worlds unborn,—

A shuddering in the awful night

Of winds that bring the morn.

Now comes the dawn: the circling earth;

Creatures that fly and crawl;

And Man, that last, imperial birth;

And Christ, the flower of all.