Poems (Linn)/Immortality

by Edith Willis Linn

For works with similar titles, see Immortality.

SONNETS.

IMMORTALITY.

O SEA that makes this fragile boat a toyAs if thou wouldst engulf it in thy might,While the wide winds wail forth their wild affrightAnd struggle with thee like a lusty boyIn arms! Time shall thy restless power destroyAnd thou be sunk in everlasting calmsWithin thy yellow sands; then pines and palmsAbove shall wave, and all this seeming joyBe stilled. Then shalt thou render up thy bones and goldAnd hidden cities; but when thou art goneAs thou must go, exultant, powerful sea,Then shall this spirit freed from bondage oldWalk radiant in the light of Heaven's dawnTriumphant in its immortality.