| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1277. Mohammed and Seid |
| | | By Harrison Smith Morris |
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| SWEPT by the hot wind, stark, untrackable, | |
| The stony desert stretches to the sky. | |
| Deep-printed shadows at the tent-door lie, | |
| And camels slumber by the burning well. | |
| One weeps within, wrinkled and dusk of face, | 5 |
| White-haired and lordly, o’er the new-brought dead: | |
| Mohammed over Seid, who loved and read | |
| Truth in the master when a fierce disgrace | |
| Burned in his blood and none would heed the word. | |
| “Behold the Prophet how he mourns a slave!” | 10 |
| So the slave’s daughter, and Mohammed heard: | |
| “A friend has lost a friend. What Allah gave | |
| His wisdom takes. He never yet has erred!” | |
| Thus said, and made the slain a martial grave. | |
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