Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BENEDICTION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN


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BENEDICTION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White sail upon the distant blue
Last Line: In turn pour down on mine and me.
Subject(s): Blessings


White sail upon the distant blue
Swift flying shallop with your snowy wings,
Here from the shore I waft to you
A message that a poet sings.

I bless you as you fade afar
Where heaving sea and heaven merge,
A faintly gleaming silver star
Upon the trembling ocean's verge.

May gentle winds from spotless skies
And halcyon seas about you play,
And all of Heaven's guardian eyes
Keep myriad watch upon your way.

May dolphins spout their silvery brine
Before your swift melodious keel,
And whitest suns upon you shine
As fleckless days about you wheel.

And when the far-off headland's slope
Uprears its beaconed star above
And lights the haven of your hope,
My blessing waft you to your love.

Oh happy be the meeting then
When heart beats joyous unto heart,
And from the deep shall draw again
Two gracious spirits long apart.

And may that love in blessing prove
Its kinship to my distant prayer;
Though all the seas be my remove,
Let me your blessing share.

For as I pray that blessing on
Both you and yours across the sea,
May your fair Love's sweet benison
In turn pour down on mine and me.





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