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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.

Appendix II. Poems Printed in the ‘Life of Whittier’

A Day’s Journey

[Written in 1886 for the tenth anniversary of the wedding of his niece.]

AFTER your pleasant morning travel

You pause as at a wayside inn,

And take with grateful hearts your breakfast

Though served in dishes all of TIN.

Then go, while years as hours are counted,

Until the dial’s hand at noon

Invites you to a dinner table

Garnished with SILVER fork and spoon.

And when the vesper bell to supper

Is calling, and the day is old,

May love transmute the tin of morning

And noonday’s silver into GOLD.