| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Air | | By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson (1848–1895) |
| | | INVISIBLE enchanter, sweet and strong, | |
| That crumblest mountains in thy soft embrace, | |
| That rock’st the feathered seed through sun-lit space | |
| And lull’st the sea with thy caressing song; | |
| How lightly dost thou dance the waves among, | 5 |
| And wingest them for flight of fitful grace, | |
| And in the cloud-rack’s path which none can trace | |
| Dispersing cheer the parchéd earth along! | |
| My voice thou bearest over dale and hill | |
| And spread’st in viewless billows near and far; | 10 |
| And with a subtler undulation still | |
| Thou tremblest with the light of farthest star, | |
| And holdest lightly, hovering on high, | |
| The bright phantasmal bridge from earth to sky. | | | | |
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