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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY
First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea
Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean
First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea
Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean
Sponge fishers of Crete went down to the sea
A thousand years in the past,
And their race in Tarpon Springs today
Where the Anclote sinks in the Gulf's white spray
Such ancient anchors cast.
Swarthy and brown, with the tools of toil
And the rover's freedom from care,
They drop to the stillest deeps below
Where the coral builds and the sponges grow,
With a coil of rope to spare.
Bold are the men who go down to the sea
These plunderers of the wave,
But the sea itself is cunning and old,
And more than the ships its maw can hold
Of the hardy and the brave.
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