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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Hannah ParkerKimball

1431 One Way of Trusting

NOT trust you, dear? Nay, ’t is not true.

As sailors trust the shifting sea

From day to day, so I trust you.

They know how smooth the sea can be;

And well they know its treachery

When tempests blow; yet forth they thrust

Their ships, as in security.

They trust it, dear, because they must.