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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SHIP, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay on delos of the cyclades
Last Line: And cast her anchors in the pools of gold.
First Line: I lay on delos of the cyclades
Last Line: And cast her anchors in the pools of gold.
I LAY on Delos of the Cyclades
At evening, on a cape of golden land;
The blind Bard's book was open in my hand,
There where the Cyclops makes the Odyssey's
Calm pages tremble as Odysseus flees.
Then, stately, like a mirage o'er the sand,
A phantom ship across the sunset strand
Rose out of dreams and clave the purple seas;
Straight on that city's bastions did she run --
Whose toppling turrets on their donjons hold
Bells that to mortal ears have never tolled --
Then drifted down the gateways of the sun
With fading pennon and with gonfalon,
And cast her anchors in the pools of gold.
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