And pour the tide with its full burden fraught.
Sailing through unknown seas, to catch the sigh
Of mighty rivers, and through night’s eclipse
See new worlds heaving upward to the sky;
To feel upon the flower of our lips
The regal kiss that sometimes hovers there;
To find the glen wherein the rainbow dips;
To stop the wheel of fortune in the air;
To see before us on the glowing page
The wavering thoughts our midnight musings bear.