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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEPRESSION, by EVALYN SCHAFFLE
First Line: We drift...Like ships becalmed in fog at sea
Last Line: When foghorns sound their wailing through the dark!
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress
First Line: We drift...Like ships becalmed in fog at sea
Last Line: When foghorns sound their wailing through the dark!
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress
We drift ... like ships becalmed in fog at sea:
With decks a cluttered mass of gloomy men
Dismally waiting for a wind to free
The sullen sails and fill them once again
But no wind comes! A slow and solemn swell
Offers no forward thrust along the way
And when the nightwatch bravely chants "all's well"
He seems to mock the restless men who pray
For quick release from this monotony
Of motion. Now, the faintest breeze would bring
Hope and the stir of life. All ribaldry
Has ceased. The wretched sailors cannot sing ....
Men soon forget the sweetness of the lark
When foghorns sound their wailing through the dark!
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