Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.

Roadside Rest

SUCH quiet sleep has come to them!

The Springs and Autumns pass,

Nor do they know if it be snow

Or daisies in the grass.

All day the birches bend to hear

The river’s undertone;

Across the hush a fluting thrush

Sings even-song alone.

But down their dream there drifts no sound,

The winds may sob and stir:

On the still breast of Peace they rest

And they are glad of her.

They ask not any gift—they mind

Nor any foot that fares,

Unheededly life passes by—

Such quiet sleep is theirs.