object:1.whitman - In Cabind Ships At Sea
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
In Cabin'd Ships At Sea
IN cabin'd ships, at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the wavesthe large imperious
wavesIn such,
Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine,
Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white sails,
She cleaves the ether, mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under
many a star at night,
By sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land,
be read,
In full rapport at last.
Here are our thoughtsvoyagers' thoughts,
Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be
said;
The sky o'erarches herewe feel the undulating deck beneath our
feet,
We feel the long pulsationebb and flow of endless motion;
The tones of unseen mysterythe vague and vast suggestions of the
briny worldthe liquid-flowing syllables,
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy
rhythm,
The boundless vista, and the horizon far and dim, are all here,
And this is Ocean's poem.
Then falter not, O book! fulfil your destiny!
You, not a reminiscence of the land alone,
You too, as a lone bark, cleaving the etherpurpos'd I know
not whitheryet ever full of faith,
Consort to every ship that sailssail you!
Bear forth to them, folded, my love(Dear mariners! for you I fold
it here, in every leaf
Speed on, my Book! spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart
the imperious waves!
Chant onsail onbear o'er the boundless blue, from me, to every
shore,
This song for mariners and all their ships.
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