A voice went by in the dark
Crying “Follow, follow me!”
I strained my eyes, but alas!
I could not see.
But the voice plead in the dark,
“Thou knewest me in thy youth,
Hast thou forgotten me now?
My name is Truth.”
“The Call in the Dark” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land (1903).
A draft of “The Call in the Dark,” courtesy of the Ella Higginson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington.