| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1381. John Brown |
| | | By Harry Lyman Koopman |
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| THE SEA-BOUND landsman, looking back to shore, | |
| Now learns what land is highest:—not the ring | |
| Of hills that erewhile shut out everything | |
| Beyond them from him: these are seen no more; | |
| Nor yet the loftier heights that, from the lower, | 5 |
| He saw far inland, blue, and, worship ping, | |
| Believed they touched the sky; the gull’s white wing | |
| Long since flashed o’er them sunk in the sea-floor. | |
| These were but uplands hiding the true height, | |
| Which looms above them as they sink, and rears | 10 |
| Its greatness ever greater on the sight. | |
| So thou, across the widening sea of years, | |
| Aye risest great, as on through gloom and bright | |
| Our tossing bark of Progress sunward steers. | |
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