Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Southern States: Kitty Hawk, N. C. | | The Wreck of the Huron | | Edith M. Thomas (1854–1925) |
| | | ROCKS and shoals of the sea, | |
| Tide of the under-waves, | |
| Surf of the moaning lee, | |
| Where the hurricane raves,— | |
| Green steeps that are storm-rent and sterile, | 5 |
| Wild-sown with the spoils of the shore,— | |
| The night has passed on and the peril, | |
| And the mariners struggle no more. | |
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| Sing for the brave ship lost: | |
| Chant for the lives that lie | 10 |
| In unknown haven tossed, | |
| Under a sobbing sky. | |
| Sing requiem, praise to the valor | |
| Unshaken though Fate held the scourge; | |
| But dawnlight unveils the stern pallor | 15 |
| Of faces swept cold by the surge. | |
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| Wreck on the sullen bar, | |
| Never in battle a-sea, | |
| Iron-girted for war, | |
| Challenge shall echo from thee: | 20 |
| Storm, darkness, and depths are thy foemen, | |
| And each hero stood to his post; | |
| But master and sailor and yeomen, | |
| Their names shall give fame to the coast. | |
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| Gulfs and caves of the deep, | 25 |
| Aged seas without pulse, | |
| Let them sleep well who sleep | |
| Lapped in sea-weed and dulse; | |
| They miss not the legend engraven, | |
| The delicate springing of flowers, | 30 |
| They miss, who, by inland and haven, | |
| Sit still through the sorrowful hours! | | | | |
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