Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
On the Shore
By Robert Kelley Weeks (18401876)H
The dull and brightening ’neath her feet,
The cool air quivering as she talked,
Or laughed, or warbled sweet.
No sound the wandering wind retains,
But, breaking where the foot-prints were,
Loudly the sea complains.