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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE'S ODYSSEY, by HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN
First Line: Life's stream cast him upon its rippled beach
Last Line: Unruffled, one with the all-embracing sea.
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Life's stream cast him upon its rippled beach
Last Line: Unruffled, one with the all-embracing sea.
Subject(s): Life
Life's stream cast him upon its rippled beach.
There a child he gathered shells and pebbles
Smoothed and fashioned by the restless waters.
Soon in rude craft he launched upon its shallows:
He the unskilled maker and mariner
Finding in his play himself unwittingly.
The will to wider shores possessing him
He sailed on and farther, till erelong at home
Was he, no longer stranger anywhere.
He became one with the stream of life
In depth and sweep, a river now whose murmurs were
The pulse-beat of his life, the music of his soul.
On flowed the current, ever more serene,
Gleaming toward the sunset ... to find himself,
Unruffled, one with the all-embracing sea.
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