| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Christmas Song |
| | | William Cox Bennett (b. 1820) |
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| BLOW, wind, blow, | |
| Sing through yard and shroud; | |
| Pipe it shrilly and loud, | |
| Aloft as well as below; | |
| Sing in my sailor’s ear | 5 |
| The song I sing to you, | |
| “Come home, my sailor true, | |
| For Christmas that comes so near.” | |
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| Go, wind, go, | |
| Hurry his home-bound sail, | 10 |
| Through gusts that are edged with hail, | |
| Through winter, and sleet, and snow; | |
| Song, in my sailor’s ear, | |
| Your shrilling and moans shall be, | |
| For he knows they sing him to me | 15 |
| And Christmas that comes so near. | |
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