Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Charles FrancisRichardson

1079 A Conjecture

I WONDER, dear, if you had been

The maiden queen’s pet maid of honor,

A flower of that fair time wherein

A court of roses smiled upon her,

And I, erewhile, by Trojan wall

Had fiercely fought for Grecian glory,

Beheld the pride of Priam fall,

And home in Athens told the story,

Whether we, wandering in the glow

Of the Hereafter’s radiant spaces,

Would there have mutely met, and so

Seen love make bright our yearning faces