402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
The History of Literature
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A Soldier of the Legion Lay Dying in Algiers
A soldier of the legion lay dying in algiers. Other people had drowned at sea since galleys swarmed with painted sails. But still, when it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the univer by disposing of him, he knows the pathos of his situation. The thing which had followed the boat and waited had evidently grown bored at the delay. There was no longer to be heard the slash of the cut water, and there was no longer the flame of the long trail. Sometimes the boom of the surf rang in the correspondent's ears, and he turned the craft seaward then and row
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