THE SHIP


LOW-WATER-MARK of words is flooded past

Because the spring tide of the mind is there :

The ship of understanding veils her mast

With sail slow filling in the moonlit air.


My feet are on her boards ; it is no dream ;

Her captain's glance is given and reassures

My wavering ; beneath the zenithed gleam

Of that high moon I knew his eyes were yours.


March 11, 1938.


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