First Line: WHILE THROUGH OUR AIR THY KINDLING COURSE WAS RUN Last Line: AGAINST THE WORLD TO PERISH, THAN THE SKY %TO CIRCLE ENDLESSLY A BARREN STONE
Poem Sources:
AMERICAN POETRY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. VOLUME 2. HERMAN MELVILLE TO TRUMBULL STICKNEY; AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY; FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS. HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.) (1993)
