| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Young State | | By John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| | | FAR off a young State rises, full of might; | |
| I paint its brave escutcheon. Near at hand | |
| See the log cabin in the rough clearing stand; | |
| A woman by its door, with steadfast sight, | |
| Trustful, looks westward, where, uplifted bright, | 5 |
| Some city’s apparition, weird and grand, | |
| In dazzling quiet fronts the lonely land, | |
| With vast and marvelous structures wrought of light, | |
| Motionless on the burning cloud afar: | |
| The haunting vision of a time to be, | 10 |
| After the heroic age is ended here, | |
| Built on the boundless, still horizon bar | |
| By the low sun, his gorgeous prophecy | |
| Lighting the doorway of the pioneer. | | | | |
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