Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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  • Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,
    Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;
    Toil on! for the wisdom of man ye mock,
    With your sand-based structure and domes of rock,
    Your columns the fathomless fountains’ cave,
    And your arches spring up to the...

  • Above them spread a stranger sky;
      Around, the sterile plain;
    The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh;
      Beyond,—the wrathful main:
    Chill remnants of the wintry snow
      Still choked the encumbered soil,
    Yet forth those Pilgrim Fathers go
      ...

  • St. stephen’s cloistered hall was proud
      In learning’s pomp that day,
    For there a robed and stately crowd
      Pressed on in long array.
    A mariner with simple chart
      Confronts that conclave high,
    While strong ambition stirs his heart,
    And...