| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1015. The Cranes of Ibycus |
| | | By Emma Lazarus |
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| THERE was a man who watched the river flow | |
| Past the huge town, one gray November day. | |
| Round him in narrow high-piled streets at play | |
| The boys made merry as they saw him go, | |
| Murmuring half-loud, with eyes upon the stream, | 5 |
| The immortal screed he held within his hand. | |
| For he was walking in an April land | |
| With Faust and Helen. Shadowy as a dream | |
| Was the prose-world, the river and the town. | |
| Wild joy possessed him; through enchanted skies | 10 |
| He saw the cranes of Ibycus swoop down. | |
| He closed the page, he lifted up his eyes, | |
| Lo—a black line of birds in wavering thread | |
| Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead! | |
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