An early unconverted Saint

"An early unconverted Saint" by Henry David Thoreau

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

An early unconverted Saint,
Free from noontide or evening taint,
Heathen without reproach,
That did upon the civil day encroach,
And ever since its birth
Had trod the outskirts of the earth.

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