Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: Across this sea I sail, and do not know
Last Line: The everlasting mystery to explore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Death; Sea Voyages; Dead, The


ACROSS this sea I sail, and do not know
What hap awaits me on its farther side, --
In these long days what dear hope may have died;
What sweet, unaccustomed joy I must forego;
What new acquaintance make with unguessed woe
(I, who with sorrow have been long allied,)
Or what blest gleam of joy yet undescried
Its tender light upon my way will throw.

Thus over Death's unsounded sea we sail,
Toward a far, unmapped, unpictured shore,
Unwitting what awaits us, bliss or bale,
Like the vast multitude that went before,
Scourged on by the inexorable gale
The everlasting mystery to explore.




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