Thursday, August 13, 2020

When Ships Sail By

 

What be this cruise that I be on

what scene doth it avail

another ship with passersby

who lean upon the rails


With strain to see their quest-filled face

of venture life and thrust

with patron wave and sorted shout

above the ocean gust


The caustic winds and blust'ring gales

the summer breeze and heat

impeding not the warm felt sun

above the rising greet


And for a while their scene aware

but now a bit obscure

the fading of the trav'ling ships

that move beyond the sure


That once was clear now fading fast

as sailing they pass by

till faint their ship in distant past

hath gone beyond my eye

 

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