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Excerpt from Driftwood: And Other Poems
Life's ocean casts up many a drifting spar, Flotsam of wrecks long since without a name, That lends the hearth a variable flame, And glitters like the Cross Whose rays afar Shine on the seas beyond the coral bar. It keeps its tale of glory or of shame And will not ever tell us whence it came N or of What forest growth its fibers are. Clear fire of driftwood, burning on the shore, Cast forth your changing hues across the main And light a phantom vessel on the waves, It bears the forms we never shall see more, Those Whom the watchers waited for in vain, The Dreams that sleep in unfo-rgotten graves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.