Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)



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First Line: Our boat to the waves go free
Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean


OUR boat to the waves go free,
By the bending tide, where the curled wave breaks,
Like the track of the wind on the white snowflakes:
Away, away! 'T is a path o'er the sea.
Blasts may rave, -- spread the sail,
For our spirits can wrest the power from the wind,
And the gray clouds yield to the sunny mind,
Fear not we the whirl of the gale.




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