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SONNET ON SEEING A VESSEL WEIGH ANCHOR FOR A LONG VOYAGE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide!
Last Line: Go, gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Sea Voyages


STATELY yon vessel sails adown the tide!
To some far distant land adventurous bound,
The sailors' busy cries from side to side,
Pealing among the echoing rocks rebound:
A patient, thoughtless, much enduring band,
Joyful they enter on their ocean way,
With shouts exulting leave their native land,
And know no care beyond the present day.
But is there no poor mourner left behind,
Who sorrows for a child or husband there?
Who at the howling of the midnight wind
Will wake and tremble in her boding prayer?
So may her voice be heard, and Heav'n be kind,
Go, gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair!





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