1431. One Way of Trusting by Hannah Parker Kimball. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1431. One Way of Trusting

By Hannah Parker Kimball


NOT trust you, dear? Nay, ’t is not true.
As sailors trust the shifting sea
From day to day, so I trust you.
They know how smooth the sea can be;
And well they know its treachery	5
When tempests blow; yet forth they thrust
Their ships, as in security.
They trust it, dear, because they must.