EARLIER POEMS
THE THREE SHIPS
Over the waters clear and dark Flew, like a startled bird, our bark.
All the day long with steady sweep Seagulls followed us over the deep.
Weird and strange were the silent shores, Rich with their wealth of buried ores;
Mighty the forests, old and gray, With the secrets locked in their hearts away.
Semblance of castle and arch and shrine Towered aloft in the clear sunshine;
And we watched for the warder, stern and grim, And the priest with his chanted prayer and hymn.