Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SEA-PLANE, by HENRY CHAPPELL



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THE SEA-PLANE, by                    
First Line: A tiny speck in the evening sky
Last Line: Takes from the mother's arms their child.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


A TINY speck in the evening sky
Nearer drawing across the main,
She cleaves the path that the swallows fly
Flecked by the sunset's crimson stain,
Homeward winging in graceful flight
As her feathered kin to the shore at night.

Nearer, and out from the glory far
Her song comes floating down the steep,
As tho' she sang to each watching star
A last good-night ere she sank to sleep,
Whilst from the shadows pearly grey
The horned moon shimmers across the bay.

The great ships know of her vigil keen,
Watching, watching the deeps below,
Where a grim, grey death by them unseen
May wait to launch her bolts of woe,
And sailor prayers for the heroes rise
Who man the watch-towers of the skies.

Dreamy and slow is the song she sings
Gliding down from her airy quest,
Ever lower on slanting wings
As the sea-bird wheels to its rocky nest,
And ocean, as tho' by her song beguiled,
Takes from the mother's arms their child.





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