Seaward: An Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons - Richard Hovey

BOSTON
D. LOTHROP COMPANY
1893

"Il tremolar della marina."—Dante.

Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.

—Emerson.

There is a city builded by no hand,
And unapproachable by any shore,
And unassailable by any band
Of storming soldiery forevermore.

—Parsons.