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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FISHERS OF MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: Men can live where fishes are
Last Line: Men, our brothers, are below!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing
First Line: Men can live where fishes are
Last Line: Men, our brothers, are below!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing
Men can live where fishes are,
Leave the mountain and the star,
Leave the meadow shining fair,
And the sunny reach of air,
Sink into the cold and dark
Regions of the eel and shark,
Grovel in the weeds and slime
And the wrecks of olden time,
Lose the thought of warm and bright
And the very sense of light,
Grow them fins and horny scales
And the twist of fishy tails,
And at length forever be
Fixed and lost within the sea.
Fling abroad the gospel net!
We may save them even yet.
Pull its kind, insistent folds
Till it captures, till it holds,
Till it lifts the fish again
To the upper world of men,
Till it places them once more
In the life they knew before.
What though waves are fierce and high,
And the storm is in the sky,
And our boat is far from land,
And the harsh ropes tear the hand?
Fishermen disciples we
As of old in Galilee.
Worn and weary, cold and wet,
Cheerily we fling the net,
Sweeping through the waves of woe:
Men, our brothers, are below!
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