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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXCITED FROM READING THE OBEDIENCE OF NATURE TO HER LORD IN VESSEL SEA, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, we perish if thou sleep
Last Line: Which dies in chains confined.
First Line: Master, we perish if thou sleep
Last Line: Which dies in chains confined.
Master, we perish if thou sleep,
We know not whence to fly;
The thunder seems to rock the deep,
Death frowns from all the sky.
He rose, he ran, and looking out,
He said, ye seas, be still;
What art thou, cruel storm, about?
All silenced at his will.
Dost thou not know that thou art mine,
And all thy liquid stores;
Who ordered first the sun to shine
And gild thy swelling shores.
My smile is but the death of harm,
Whilst riding on the wind,
My power restrains the thunder's arm,
Which dies in chains confined.
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