StoryTitle("caps", "A Life on the Ocean Wave") ?>
Life on the Ocean Wave," by Epes Sargent (1813-80), gives the swing and
motion of the water of the great ocean. Children remember it almost
unconsciously after hearing it read several times.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A life on the ocean wave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A home on the rolling deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the scattered waters rave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the winds their revels keep!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like an eagle caged, I pine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On this dull, unchanging shore:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh! give me the flashing brine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The spray and the tempest's roar!", "") ?>
PagePoem(86, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once more on the deck I stand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of my own swift-gliding craft:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Set sail! farewell to the land!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The gale follows fair abaft.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We shoot through the sparkling foam", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like an ocean-bird set free;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the ocean-bird, our home", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll find far out on the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The land is no longer in view,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The clouds have begun to frown;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But with a stout vessel and crew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll say, Let the storm come down!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the song of our hearts shall be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While the winds and the waters rave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A home on the rolling sea!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A life on the ocean wave!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Epes Sargent.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>