Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SILVER SEALS, by FLORENCE WENNER


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SILVER SEALS, by                    
First Line: My restless thoughts take leave of me
Last Line: Ride on the unknown breakers, ride!
Subject(s): Seals (animals)


My restless thoughts take leave of me
As seals would slip into the sea
To move through waters lashing high.

Beyond, grim foes that know no sleep
Wait for them in the mighty deep
As shadows of great whales go by.

Yet fear or danger cannot hold
The shining forms that thread the cold,
Far stretches of the mother ocean:

Though foes assail they cannot kill
These quivering shapes Eternal Will
Sends luminously into motion.

Blue, green or grey the waters flow,
And through their foaming torrents go
Sleek bodies of my silver seals:

As streaks of light they nose the wave,
Swift swimmers, confident and brave,
Where ice breaks under iron keels.

Go, silver seals, straight through the crest
Of full swells on the ocean's breast
To cleave far rims of thundering tide!

And when the distant spray leaps bright,
Swim, silver seals, swim out of sight;
Ride on the unknown breakers, ride!





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