Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
Author
Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
Publication
New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme
1916
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WHITHER, O barques that plough the plunging brineOn wide adventure, whither do you fare?Down dim horizons through the sparkling airI mark your slowly lessening hulls decline.Seek you far ports below the distant line, Rio or Argentine, or do you dareThe perils of the Horn, and hope to sharePacific seas, where palm fronds shift and shine?
You know not what awaits you, glow or gloom,The peaceful homing, or the deep sea doom;The haven, or the reef in its white lair;So do I question on the sea of life,That ocean of commingled calm and strife,Whither, O mortals, whither do you fare?
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