| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917. | | | | The Hudson | | By Starr Hoyt Nichols |
| | | WITH tranquil majesty our river flows | |
| From lordly Adirondack Mountains green, | |
| Where muskrats slink and otter fish unseen, | |
| And antlered stags wait for their lonely does. | |
| How swell its waters as it grandly goes | 5 |
| By cloudy Catskill through West Point’s ravine, | |
| Floating rich fleets its sculptured banks between, | |
| Toward pillared Palisades past Anthony’s Nose! | |
| Next laps Manhattan’s wharves in light caress, | |
| Blent with green Neptune’s earth-surrounding streams | 10 |
| And dancing by the city’s blithesomeness | |
| Gives port to navies where the high gull screams; | |
| Then sinks its being in the featureless sea, | |
| As souls melt theirs in death’s infinity. | | | | |
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