| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1087. England |
| | | By Richard Edwin Day |
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| THOU art as a lone watcher on a rock, | |
| With Saxon hair back floating in the wind, | |
| Gazing where stranger ships, to doom consigned, | |
| Upon the sullen ledges grind and knock. | |
| Fair were the barks round which the breakers flock, | 5 |
| Rich freights had they of treasure for mankind, | |
| And gallant were the hearts that left behind | |
| The sea’s broad buffet for the channel’s shock. | |
| Slow, slow the ship that brings thy liberties | |
| Cuts the white tempest or the bright, blue brine, | 10 |
| And wanders oft before the whelming storm, | |
| And ever the swift straits and shallows flees. | |
| But near, more near, the haven’s sheltering line, | |
| Up the long sea-curve rides its stately form. | |
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