| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1671. After Music |
| | | By Josephine Preston Peabody |
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| I SAW not they were strange, the ways I roam, | |
| Until the music called, and called me thence, | |
| And tears stirred in my heart as tears may come | |
| To lonely children straying far from home, | |
| Who know not how they wandered so, nor whence. | 5 |
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| If I might follow far and far away | |
| Unto the country where these songs abide, | |
| I think my soul would wake and find it day, | |
| Would tell me who I am, and why I stray,— | |
| Would tell me who I was before I died. | 10 |
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