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SONNET: CLEAVE THOU THE WAVES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cleave thou the waves that weltering to and fro
Last Line: The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Sea; Conduct Of Life; Ocean


CLEAVE thou the waves that weltering to and fro
Surge multitudinous. The eternal Powers
Of sun, moon, stars, the air, the hurrying hours,
The winged winds, the still dissolving show
Of clouds in calm or storm, for ever flow
Above thee; while the abysmal sea devours
The untold dead insatiate, where it lowers
O'er glooms unfathomed, limitless, below.

No longer on the golden-fretted sands,
Where many a shallow tide abortive chafes,
Mayst thou delay; life onward sweeping blends
With far-off heaven: the dauntless one who braves
The perilous flood with calm unswerving hands,
The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves.





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