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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE HUDSON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, river! Gently as a wayward child
Last Line: That like the ocean call invites me to its strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Hudson River
First Line: Oh, river! Gently as a wayward child
Last Line: That like the ocean call invites me to its strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Hudson River
Oh, river! gently as a wayward child
I saw thee mid the moonlight hills at rest;
Capricious thing, with thine own beauty wild,
How didst thou still the throbbings of thy breast?
Rude headlands were about thee, stooping round,
As if amid the hills to hold thy stay;
But thou didst hear the far-off ocean sound,
Inviting thee from hill and vale away,
To mingle thy deep waters with its own;
And, at that voice. thy steps did onward glide,
Onward from echoing hill and valley lone.
Like thine, oh, be my course -- nor turned aside,
While listing to the soundings of a land,
That like the ocean call invites me to its strand.
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