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

By Charles WarrenStoddard

840 Wind and Wave

O, WHEN I hear at sea

The water on our lee,

I fancy that I hear the wind

That combs my hemlock tree:

But when beneath that tree

I listen eagerly,

I seem to hear the rushing wave

I heard far out at sea.