“I view the ships that come and go,

Looking so like to living things.

O! ’tis a proud and gallant show

Of bright and broad-spread wings,

Making it light around them, as they keep

Their course right onward through the unsounded deep.”

Dana.

God be with them and their brave and gallant crews. But, again.

“Where the far-off sand-bars lift

Their backs in long and narrow line,