| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1690. The Hudson |
| | | By George Sidney Hellman |
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| WHERE in its old historic splendor stands | |
| The home of England’s far-farmed Parliament, | |
| And waters of the Thames in calm content | |
| At England’s fame flow slowly o’er their sands; | |
| And where the Rhine past vine-entwined lands | 5 |
| Courses in castled beauty, there I went; | |
| And far to Southern rivers, flower-besprent; | |
| And to the icy streams of Northern strands. | |
| Then mine own native shores I trod once more, | |
| And, gazing on thy water’s majesty, | 10 |
| The memory, O Hudson, came to me | |
| Of one who went to seek the wide world o’er | |
| For Love, but found it not. Then home turned he | |
| And saw his mother waiting at the door. | |
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