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Wednesday, April 02, 2025 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Richard Watson Gilder (1844 – 1909)


American poet and editor.
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O white and midnight sky, O starry bath,
Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood:
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath—
Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
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Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
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Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.




From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.
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