"OUT OF THE DEPTHS."
Lost! Lost! Lost! The cry went up from a sea — The waves were wild with an awful wrath, Not a light shone down on the lone ship's path; The clouds hung low: Lost! Lost! Lost! Rose wild from the hearts of the tempest tossed.
Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]
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- Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]
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- Ryan, Abram Joseph, 1836-1886
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- Baltimore, Md.: John B. Piet & Co.
- 1884
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"Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9548.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Lost! Lost! Lost! The cry floated over the waves — Far over the pitiless waves; It smote on the dark and it rended the clouds; The billows below them were weaving white shrouds Out of the foam of the surge, And the wind-voices chanted a dirge: Lost! Lost! Lost! Wailed wilder the lips of the tempest-tossed.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Not the sign of a hope was nigh, In the sea, in the air or the sky; And the lifted faces were wan and white, There was nothing without them but storm and night, And nothing within but fear; But far to a Father's ear: Lost! Lost! Lost! Floated the wail of the tempest-tossed.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Out of the depths of the sea — Out of the night and the sea; And the waves and the winds of the storm were hushed, And the sky with the gleams of the stars was flushed.
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Saved! Saved! Saved! And a calm and a joyous cry Floated up through the starry sky, In the dark — in the storm — "Our Father" is nigh.