Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BON VOYAGE!, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL



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First Line: Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue
Last Line: And tempt the nautilus his cruise to dare!
Subject(s): Sea Voyages


SHIP, blest to bear such freight across the blue,
May stormless stars control thy horoscope;
In keel and hull, in every spar and rope,
Be night and day to thy dear office true!
Ocean, men's path and their divider too,
No fairer shrine of memory and hope
To the underworld adown thy westering slope
E'er vanished, or whom such regrets pursue:
Smooth all thy surges as when Jove to Crete
Swam with less costly burthen, and prepare
A pathway meet for her home-coming soon
With golden undulations such as greet
The printless summer-sandals of the moon
And tempt the Nautilus his cruise to dare!





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