(_To a Petrel_)
All day long in the spindrift swinging,
Bird of the sea! bird of the sea!
How I would that I had thy winging–
How I envy thee!
How I would that I had thy spirit,
So to careen, joyous to cry,
Over the storm and never fear it!
Into the night that hovers near it!
Calm on a reeling sky!
All day long, and the night, unresting!
Ah! I believe thy every breath
Means that Life’s Best comes ever breasting
Peril and pain and death!
(Cale Young Rice)
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