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
Twenty Bold Mariners
By Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa) (18511926)[From Along the Shore. 1888.]
T
Twenty sweet breezes blew over the main;
All were so hearty, so free, and so brave,—
But they never came back again!
Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain;
Twenty white crests rose around them like shrouds,
And they stayed in the dancing main!
And the breaking of dawn is no newer to-day;
But those who die young or are left forlorn,
Think grief is no older than they!