Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06


ing of the Azores incident of your Just before
daybreak ship shaking and the reused by the
deep of the big steam whistle
One by one shiverng sraggle up from below, like
spirits answering premature last call Bare feet in
slippers and shveng forms with overcoats nghgowns
gradually line the rails.
On the left there appears apparently heavy dark bank of
clouds
The Azores shouts down from the bridge your yellow
whiskeed captain looking cheerful and though
were noon.
You watch shver blink the light grows stronger be-
hind the pnlsh The dark cloud settles into
solid land You clearly Sharply outlined against the sky
stands miles long mammoth with huge teeth irregular,
sharp The power made all of that land
and sharp awteeth pointing toward the sky the de-
sroyer of long ago. cold now telling omnousy of
the power that lies hidden below.
you and the Frightening sunrise suspended in the
nest halfway up the mast stands the sailor who
watches the for you through the night He calls out and
ahead the left you small boat filed with human beings
that scarcely big your finger Your ship could pillow
through miles of such small boasbut out there in the
just well inside the biggest courthouse LAW rules and the
big ship turn out for the small fishing boat.
You realize the power and the beauty of law governor
and sustaner. that laws of little reach out two
miles You think of the laws of the universe
the Unreasonable distances of time and
of all the worlds
AS those fishermen safely under full pro-
lection their little lost of the great in
little world little insignificant of space work out
tiny problems safely under the splendid protection of Divine
and wisdom to from farof point of which
know nothing.
light the rising brings out from shore ether
with its load of who their to the
steamship and cheer against the sound of the and wind
To them that ship like the fast that the country
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again.
Those fishermen feel that THEY the REAL world the
steamship and outside creation only half imagined interest
ing phenomena You look down from the deck and the fisher
unreal little ornaments of European excursion
of human beings 60 their waysto each
nothing is important, that which each is doing.
There great planets and that roll past this
of ether Our pathetic little round earth looks to
fishing boat of the Azores looks you And WE
think of those great ntersear travellers the fisherman his
little boat things of the nerth great star merely
interesting feature of OUR sky And actually wonder
whether there thought that big distant nte
gence the ship that pows the of mess space
The high ridge peaks others near it are
made fertile and by soil gradually developed through the
centuries by seeds brought the by winds and birds
The tops of the mountains are black lava Lakes of black
water fill of the quiet crater Only here and there the
rising sulphur smoke from rocky assures tells heat
smoldering
The last great eruption of the volcanoes occurred little
than two hundred years ago-so the inhabitants laugh
you speak danger They forget that two hundred years
earhs life two minutes in the life of that
a did two minutes since he may do again.
built the fields of thin soil cover the
Each inch of that land thrown up by belongs to
White houses stand the edges deep
yons running from the mountain tops the edgecanyons
made pouring lava the splitting the under
fearful pressure.
Children play about the blocks of their lives
matter where they may those children will think of that
faro island the only real home and of black blocks as
the only REAL kind of stone
From your passing boat you not these children
Their little lives lost the as uninportant as
the lives of the fish that swim below you
But child playing there to-day may be like
island child Napoleon and live rest of the world
talk about the island that bred him better still some one
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