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

By Richard WatsonGilder

917 Noël

STAR-DUST and vaporous light,—

The mist of worlds unborn,—

A shuddering in the awful night

Of winds that bring the morn.

Now comes the dawn: the circling earth;

Creatures that fly and crawl;

And Man, that last, imperial birth;

And Christ, the flower of all.