Sail fast, sail fast, <br /> Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams; <br /> Sweep lordly o'er the drowned Past, <br /> Fly glittering through the sun's strange beams; <br /> Sail fast, sail fast. <br />Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea <br />With news about the Future scent the sea: <br />My brain is beating like the heart of Haste: <br />I'll loose me a bird upon this Present waste; <br /> Go, trembling song, <br /> And stay not long; oh, stay not long: <br /> Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove, <br /> But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.<br /><br />Sidney Lanier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-of-the-future/
