| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1208. The New Arrival |
| | | By George Washington Cable |
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| THERE came to port last Sunday night | |
| The queerest little craft, | |
| Without an inch of rigging on; | |
| I looked and looked—and laughed! | |
| It seemed so curious that she | 5 |
| Should cross the Unknown water, | |
| And moor herself within my room— | |
| My daughter! O, my daughter! | |
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| Yet by these presents witness all | |
| She ’s welcome fifty times, | 10 |
| And comes consigned in hope and love— | |
| And common-metre rhymes. | |
| She has no manifest but this; | |
| No flag floats o’er the water; | |
| She ’s too new for the British Lloyds— | 15 |
| My daughter! O, my daughter! | |
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| Ring out, wild bells—and tame ones too; | |
| Ring out the lover’s moon. | |
| Ring in the little worsted socks, | |
| Ring in the bib and spoon. | 20 |
| Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse, | |
| Ring in the milk and water. | |
| A way with paper, pen, and ink— | |
| My daughter! O, my daughter! | |
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