Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RUBICON OF YOUTH, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON


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First Line: We launched a boat and were soon afloat
Last Line: On that wondrous cruise 'neath the arching sky.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth; Seamen; Sails


WE launched a boat and were soon afloat
When the golden sun was high,
The dancing wavelets mirrored forth
The beauties of earth and sky.
They shimmered and shone with rainbow hues,
Assuring each heart of a blissful cruise.

Our spirits were light as the sparkling spray,
Nor fears nor cares oppressed,
The World—a mystical dream of youth,
The Elysium of the blest.
Our songs burst forth in a joyous strain,
And our laugh rang out in a glad refrain.

The reeds and willows that fringed the bank
Of the Rubicon's flowing stream,
Were swiftly reached by the oarsman Time,
And we waked from a halcyon dream.
The anchored boat on the western shore,
And furled are its sails forever more!

Life's duties await us—its toil and strife—
With pleasures that blossom between;
And memory's walls will alone reflect
The Rubicon's silvery sheen.
Yet I love to muse as the years flit by,
On that wondrous cruise 'neath the arching sky.





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