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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA MIST, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON
First Line: The sea assumes her most mysterious dress
Last Line: The ramparts and armadas of his race.
Subject(s): Nothingness; Sea; Nihilism; Voids; Ocean
First Line: The sea assumes her most mysterious dress
Last Line: The ramparts and armadas of his race.
Subject(s): Nothingness; Sea; Nihilism; Voids; Ocean
The sea assumes her most mysterious dress,
And vainly homing ships her films explore
For castled ports upon familiar shore.
Lost now, Atlantis-like, beyond all guess.
Hearken the eerie bugles of distress
That wail across a wilderness of hoar
Where mighty squadrons have become no more
Than phantoms on a tide of nothingness.
It is as if the unconquerable sea,
Weary of ships, and weary of man's boast
That he had tamed her tide and chained her coast
And bound her tempests to his sovereignty,
Bade Mist, her frailest servitor, efface
The ramparts and armadas of his race.
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