A life on the ocean wave, <br />A home on the rolling deep, <br />Where the scattered waters rave, <br />And the winds their revels keep! <br />Like an eagle caged, I pine <br />On this dull, unchanging shore: <br />Oh! give me the flashing brine, <br />The spray and the tempest's roar! <br /> <br />Once more on the deck I stand <br />Of my own swift-gliding craft: <br />Set sail! farewell to the land! <br />The gale follows fair abaft. <br />We shoot through the sparkling foam <br />Like an ocean-bird set free; - <br />Like the ocean-bird, our home <br />We'll find far out on the sea. <br /> <br />The land is no longer in view, <br />The clouds have begun to frown; <br />But with a stout vessel and crew, <br />We'll say, Let the storm come down! <br />And the song of our hearts shall be, <br />While the winds and the waters rave, <br />A home on the rolling sea! <br />A life on the ocean wave!<br /><br />Epes Sargent<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-life-on-the-ocean-wave/
