| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Two Infinities |
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| A LONELY way, and as I went my eyes | |
| Could not unfasten from the Spring’s sweet things, | |
| Lush sprouted grass, and all that climbs and clings | |
| In loose, deep hedges, where the primrose lies | |
| In her own fairness, buried blooms surprise | 5 |
| The plunderer bee and stop his murmurings, | |
| And the glad flutter of a finch’s wings | |
| Outstartle small blue speckled butterflies. | |
| Blissfully did one speedwell plot beguile | |
| My whole heart long; I lov’d each separate flower, | 10 |
| Kneeling. I look’d up suddenly—Dear God! | |
| There stretch’d the shining plain for many a mile, | |
| The mountains rose with what invincible power! | |
| And how the sky was fathomless and broad! | |
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