Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAN SAILS THE DEEP A WHILE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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Last Line: Your colours still shall fly
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seeking


Man sails the deep awhile;
Loud runs the roaring tide;
The seas are wild and wide;
O'er many a salt, o'er many a desert mile,
The unchained breakers ride,
The quivering stars beguile.

Hope bears the sole command;
Hope, with unshaken eyes,
Sees flaw and storm arise;
Hope, the good steersman, with unwearying hand,
Steers, under changing skies,
Unchanged toward the land.

O wind that bravely blows!
O hope that sails with all
Where stars and voices call!
O ship undaunted that forever goes
Where God, her admiral,
His battle signal shows!

What though the seas and wind
Far on the deep should whelm
Colours and sails and helm?
There, too, you touch that port that you designed''"
There, in the mid-seas' realm,
Shall you that haven find.





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