| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1305. Lohengrin |
| | | By William Morton Payne |
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| STRAIN, strain thine eyes, this parting is for aye! | |
| Grief have her will of thee! Thy faith confessed | |
| To his unequal, he must go, the quest | |
| Fulfilled that brought him hither on thy day | |
| Of imminent, direst peril. Now away | 5 |
| To other shores bids him the Grail’s behest. | |
| Thou knewest him too late to spare thy breast | |
| This keen remorse, thy soul this dark dismay. | |
| Yet canst thou face not all disconsolate | |
| The coming years. The horn remains, the sword, | 10 |
| The ring he left thee, and the child whom late | |
| Thou mournedst; while beyond the power of fate | |
| To dim the memory of that love outpoured | |
| Upon thee by thy stainless knight and lord. | |
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