• The river widens to a pathless sea
      Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies.
      Look out the window; ’t is a gray emprise,
    This piloting of massed humanity
      On such a day, from shore to busy shore,
      And breeds the thought that beauty is no more.

    But see yon woman in the cabin seat,
      The Southland in her face and foreign dress;...