'Thou Ship of Earth, with Death, and Birth, and Life, and Sex aboard, <br />And fires of Desires burning hotly in the hold, <br />I fear thee, O! I fear thee, for I hear the tongue and sword <br />At battle on the deck, and the wild mutineers are bold! <br /> <br />'The dewdrop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky, <br />But all the deck is wet with blood and stains the crystal red. <br />A pilot, GOD, a pilot! for the helm is left awry, <br />And the best sailors in the ship lie there among the dead!'<br /><br />Sidney Lanier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ship-of-earth/
