Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT


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THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by                    
First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone
Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean


THE captain scans the ruffled zone,^1^
And heeds the wind's increasing scope;
He knows full well, and reckons on
His seamanship, but God's his hope. ...

Look, look ye down the plumbless deep,
See, if ye can, their lifeless forms!—
Here laid, poor things! across a steep,
An infant in its mother's arms;

There, it may be, a man and wife,
(Embracing either now as when
They went to rest, at night, in life),
Are resting in a turbid glen.
^FOOTNOTE^
^1^ A figurative expression, intended by the Author to signify the horizon.





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