Arts & Sciences
The Living Book
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Arts & Sciences
This bears the seal of immortality,
For every soul that reads it feels the search
Of answering thought, and thousands there may be
Saying at once, "How straight that looks at me!"
Nor child nor fool it leaveth in the lurch;
But, like the eyes that mark great Guido's fame,
It follows every one, as if by name.
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Bates, Charlotte Fiske. “The Living Book.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bates_cf/4/.
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Bates, Charlotte Fiske. “The Living Book.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bates_cf/4/.
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