| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Recollection | | By William Bartlett Tyler |
| | | AS when a player, weary of the day, | |
| Takes up his instrument and plays along, | |
| First aimlessly, until unto some song, | |
| Heard long ago, his fingers find their way,— | |
| The old tune bringing memories which lay | 5 |
| Deep buried in the past, once glad and strong,— | |
| He feels again those joys around him throng, | |
| And weeps erewhile to think they cannot stay; | |
| So I, a-weary with the passing hours, | |
| In musing fell upon the name of one, | 10 |
| Now dead and gone, who was once dear to me, | |
| And recollection sweet as summer showers | |
| Came back, swift as the first, faint gleams that run, | |
| At dawn, across a great gray waste of sea. | | | | |
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