| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 639. The Derelict |
| | | By Lucius Harwood Foote |
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| UNMOORED, unmanned, unheeded on the deep— | |
| Tossed by the restless billow and the breeze, | |
| It drifts o’er sultry leagues of tropic seas, | |
| Where long Pacific surges swell and sweep. | |
| When pale-faced stars their silent watches keep, | 5 |
| From their far rhythmic spheres, the Pleiades, | |
| In calm beatitude and tranquil ease, | |
| Smile sweetly down upon its cradled sleep. | |
| Erewhile, with anchor housed and sails unfurled, | |
| We saw the stout ship breast the open main, | 10 |
| To round the Stormy Cape, and span the world, | |
| In search of ventures which betoken gain. | |
| To-day, somewhere, on some far sea, we know | |
| Her battered hulk is heaving to and fro. | |
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