but I will sing your glory

that is part of the desire

of audacious men.

Submarine, Destiny may have willed

you to sink silently,

and remain lost forever in the viscid bed of the sea-weed,

(O submarine, able to challenge the unconsciousness of the seas

and the impotence of the lighthouses,)

but you are alive and strong;

there is no death, but only an appearance