S.S. + 

Lusitania + 

I read in Dante how that horned light, + 

Which hid Ulysses, waved itself and said: + 

“Following the sun, we set our vessel’s head + 

To the great main; pass’d Seville on the right + 

“And Ceuta on the left; then southward sped. + 

And last in air, far off, dim rose a Height. + 

We cheer’d; but from it rush’d a blast of might, + 

And struck⁠—and o’er us the sea-waters spread.” + 

I dropp’d the book, and of my child I thought + 

In his long black ship speeding night and day + 

O’er those same seas; dark Teneriffe rose, fraught + 

With omen; “Oh! were that Mount pass’d,” I say. + 

Then the door opens and this card is brought: + 

“Reach’d Cape Verde Islands, Lusitania.” + 