Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD



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A SAILOR'S SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming
Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!"
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation


WE kissed good-bye in the gloaming
Ere the moon crept up the sky;
"When, love, will you be homing?"
She cried, with a teary eye;
"When will you cease from roaming
The breast of the barren sea,
And come to another breast for rest, --
To the longing heart o' me?"
Then I said to her, low and slow, --
"Oh, it's ever the lad must go,
And it's ever the lass must stay,
And that is the tale of the world-old woe
Till the trump of the judgment-day!"

Still I hear her voice enthralling,
And I see her standing there,
With the night's deep shadows falling
On the dawn-break of her hair.
And ever her calling, calling,
Floats over the southern sea, --
"Come back to my aching breast with rest
For the longing heart o' me!"
But I cry to her, low and slow, --
"Oh, it's ever the lad must go,
And it's ever the lass must stay,
And that is the tale of world-old woe
Till the trump of the judgment-day!"





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