Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | VII. The Sea | | Ocean | | Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827) |
| | From “The Course of Time,” Book I.
GREAT Ocean! strongest of creation’s sons, | |
| Unconquerable, unreposed, untired, | |
| That rolled the wild, profound, eternal bass | |
| In nature’s anthem, and made music such | |
| As pleased the ear of God! original, | 5 |
| Unmarred, unfaded work of Deity! | |
| And unburlesqued by mortal’s puny skill; | |
| From age to age enduring, and unchanged, | |
| Majestical, inimitable, vast, | |
| Loud uttering satire, day and night, on each | 10 |
| Succeeding race, and little pompous work | |
| Of man; unfallen, religious, holy sea! | |
| Thou bowedest thy glorious head to none, fearedst none, | |
| Heardst none, to none didst honor, but to God | |
| Thy Maker, only worthy to receive | 15 |
| Thy great obeisance. | | | | |
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