| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Foreboding |
| | | Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (b. 184–) |
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| I DO not dread an alter’d heart, | |
| Or that long line of land or sea | |
| Should separate my love from me, | |
| I dread that drifting slow apart— | |
| All unresisted, unrestrain’d— | 5 |
| Which comes to some when they have gain’d | |
| The dear endeavor of their soul. | |
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| As two light skiffs that sail’d together, | |
| Through days and nights of tranquil weather, | |
| Adown some inland stream, might be | 10 |
| Drifted asunder, each from each; | |
| When, floating with the tide, they reach | |
| The hop’d-for end, the promis’d goal, | |
| The sudden glory of the sea. | |
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