Bliss Carman (1861-1929). A Son of the Sea. William Wilfred Campbell, comp. 1913. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse

William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913.

A Son of the Sea

By Bliss Carman (1861–1929)


I WAS born for deep-sea faring;
I was bred to put to sea;
Stories of my father’s daring
Filled me at my mother’s knee.

I was sired among the surges;	5
I was cubbed beside the foam;
All my heart is in its verges,
And the sea wind is my home.

All my boyhood, from far vernal
Bourns of being, came to me	10
Dream-like, plangent, and eternal
Memories of the plunging sea.