Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest | | To All in Haven | | Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887) |
| | | ALL ye who have gained the haven of safe days, | |
| And rest at ease, your wanderings being done, | |
| Except the last, inevitable one, | |
| Be well content, I say, and hear men’s praise: | |
| Yet in the quiet of your sheltered bays,— | 5 |
| Bland waters shining in an equal sun,— | |
| Forget not that the awful storm-tides run | |
| In far, unsheltered, and tempestuous ways: | |
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| Remember near what rocks, and through what shoals, | |
| Worn, desperate mariners strain with all their might: | 10 |
| They may not come to your sweet restful goals, | |
| Your waters placid in the level light:— | |
| Their graves wait in that sea no moon controls, | |
| That is in dreadful fellowship with Night. | | | | |
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