Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Inspiration, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
“I see them walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days,
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.”
"They Are All Gone," st. 3.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
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