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
The River-God
By Charles Henry Lüders (18581891)A
A comrade,—a companion,—a refrain
Threading a dream; yet, laughing like a rill,
He’ll bear your drownèd body to the main.