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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

“As the Crow Files”

By Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934)

BUCCANEER with blackest sails,

Steering home by compass true,

Now that all the rich West pales

From its ingot-hue!

Would that compass in thy breast

Thou couldst lend, for guiding me

Where my Hope hath made her nest—

In how far a tree!

Swerving not, nor stooping low,

To that dear, that distant mark

Could I undiverted go,

What were coming dark?

—Careless of the twilight ground,

O’er the wood and o’er the stream

Still he sails, with hollow sound

Strange, as in a dream!