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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JOY ENOUGH, by BARRETT EASTMAN
First Line: Into the caverns of the sea
Last Line: Above -- the firmament?
First Line: Into the caverns of the sea
Last Line: Above -- the firmament?
INTO the caverns of the sea
Shall all at last descend,
Who now press forward gallantly
Unrecking of the end.
And no man knoweth what is there,
Nor when his time shall come
To yield his soul and take his share
With all those gone and dumb.
It may be we shall find our kin
Waiting to grasp our hands,
And lead us glorified within,
Over the shining sands;
It may be we with them shall lie,
While heaven and earth abide,
Swaying silent with sightless eye
There in the sluggish tide.
It matters nothing if to-day,
Beneath the splendid sun,
We hold to the appointed way,
Doing what must be done.
Reward? What would you? Have not we
The waves beneath us bent?
The winds about us blowing free?
Above -- the firmament?
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