The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-14
For ne Eucning Telegraph
A SAILORS ODE TO TIE SEA.

For tae Bpering Telegraph
A SAILORS ODE TO TIE SEA.
B7 CAPTAIN JOHN P. surnERs, OF THE MER-
CHANT MARINE.
Our minds are thrilled with awe beyond
q mHTmuring sea while pensive and alone
We finger by thy side thy blue waves roll
And onward plunge, with ever restless moan,
Stretching away into the dim unknown
While all they graceful bilows bend andnod.
We love to listen to thy lofty tone
Which bids us look away e'er mans foot
trod
The Garden of the Lord, " or sin had cursed
the sod.
Thv atoms were in Chaos, when in sleep
Creation lay; when dread and silent night
Spread her dark wing DER all the mighty deep
God spake, and at the word the tinted light
Mantled the east, till all thy waves grew bright
With Mornings richest hue; then beauty
rare
snread over thy surface, and the azure height
Looked down and smiled upon thee, until
hinthy peaceful waters, glOwed her image
fair.
Thou heard'st the morning stars aloud rejoice,
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sweep.
When earth was new, then thy untettered
voice
Joined in the hymn, deep answered back to
deep,
Then did thy CLASSY waves joyfully leap
In praise to Him who dropped thee from His
hand
Like clear crystal fount and bade thee keep
Thy stated bounds. How wonderful and
grand
He curbs thy foaming waves from passing
oer the land.
The wondrous record of the ages past
Were in thy presence sealed; upon young
time
Thou did'st look forth, and from thy bosom
vast
Thou liftest up thy mighty voice sublime
To noble minstrelsy, which lofty rhyme
Floats down upon thy waters full and clear.
We bow our ear to that soul-melting chime
OF ancient song, until it doth appear
That the far voice of ages soundeth strangely
near
While on the earth change pasSeEs ssesn over ALL
Thou art unalterable, and no decay
Has touched thy structure; thou hast known
the fate
OF empires and of crowns; and kingdoms lay
In ruins at thy feet; races have passed away;
And thou d'st see Oblivion's mantle cast
Upon their wreck, whilst thou upon thy way
Went forward changeless, as the ages passed,
Rejoicing, while all nature seem ed 10 or UNI
BILE fast.
With hand upon our mouth, with head low
bowed
In silent ave. we in thy presence see
That we are dust; while thou art speaking loud
Of God of Power and of Eternity
Mysterious depths, vast secrets are with thee
OF sacred trust; within thy strange dark
breast
Are volumes hidden, deep and wise, wise sea
Thy rolling waters never, never rest,
Yet not by them is all thy mighty power
expressed.
But let us for a moment look away
Where bright the emerald isles in beauty
glow,
Among thy waves, and see the things that
play
In wonder DER the deep; fleets with their
wings of snow
Upon thy sunny waters come and go;
From zone to zone and from east to west,
Do thy majestic pillows surge and flow,
Bearing the hope of nations on their breast
Thou art, murmuring sea so peaceful in
thy rest.
But ah how frightfully thy pillows well,
Mingling their voices with the thunder S jar
While Triton sounds upon his trumpet shell
10 call the awful tempests from afar,
Till all the elements seem met in war
With thy tremendous waves and madly
down
Are powerful navies hurled-and not star
Looks down upon thee, but the storm iends
frown,
Each o'er the desolation waving his dark
crown.
TX.
Upon the waves where Triton shows his wrath,
Old fables tell us, Neptune, proud king,
Is drawn by Dolphins; while along the path
In graceful figures, Nereids dance and sing,
And all the foaming billows nightly ring
With revelry beneath their fairy tread.
The ancients feared those phantoms, for the