For those in peril on the sea

by Gordon Kerry (b. 1961)

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The sea has taken a sailor to the deep
Unknowing, his mother lights

A candle at the Virgin’s shrine.
She prays for calm seas and

A favouring breeze to bring him home.
But as she prays, 

the icon gazes sadly
Knowing that he will never come again.

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2. souwester blows cold
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souwester blows cold
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3. Make ready, make ready my merry men all
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Make ready, make ready my merry men all
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4. Into the snows she sweeps
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Into the snows she sweeps,
Hurling the haven behind,
The `Deutschland', on Sunday ; and so the sky keeps,
For the infinite air is unkind,
And the sea flint-flake, black-backed in the regular blow,
Sitting Eastnortheast, in cursed quarter, the wind ;
Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow
Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps.

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Loathed for a love men knew in them,
Banned by the land of their birth,
Rhine refused them. Thames would ruin them ;
Surf, snow, river and earth
Gnashed : but thou art above, thou Orion of light ;
Thy unchancelling poising palms were weighing the worth,
Thou martyr- master : in thy sight
Storm flakes were scroll- leaved flowers, lily showers -- sweet heaven was astrew in them.

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5. You are on the verge
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You are on the verge
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6. Love is patient, love is kind
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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy or boast, it is not proud.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes and endures all things.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels,
If I have not love, I am as sounding brass,
Or a tinkling cymbal.
Though I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries,
Know all things, and though my faith could move mountains,
If I have not love, I am nothing.
Though I give away all I have, and my body to the flames
If I have not love, I am nothing.

Love does not fail, but prophecy shall cease,
tongues shall be stilled and knowledge shall vanish away.
For we see as in a glass darkly, but then face to face.

When I was a child I spoke as a child I thought as a child
I reasoned as a child, but now I am grown
I put away childish things.

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7. the ribbonweed tugs at the river mouth
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the ribbonweed tugs at the river mouth
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