With none to share my ship with me,
A wand’rer o’er life’s stormy sea,
One brilliant star, like lamp of love,
Smiles calmly from its throne above.
Oh! brightly o’er the surging wave,
That lustre shines to bless and save;
And on through billows thund’ring roll,
Conducts me to my heavenly goal.
That star by gracious Love was placed,
To look, in beauty uneffaced,
Over the wildest wrath of storms,
And scatter round its glittering charms:
It is Religion, and its ray
Is fed by angel hands alway:
It beams with beauty so divine,
The wand’rer smiles to see it shine.
Hail, one bright star on all life’s main;
Though surf roll high, and cordage strain;
And cowards, ship! may quake for thee;
Thou walk’st victorious o’er the sea.
Oh! proudly, as an ocean-queen,
Thy frame, majestic still is seen–
Until thou rest in heaven at last,
Thy sailing done, thy anchor cast.
(James Avis Bartley)
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