<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408125" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Prayer on the Pier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proudly foats the ocean steamer,--<br>Throngs aboard and on the pier;<br>With orders, oaths, and farewells mingled,<br>What a medley greats the ear!<br>Off are cast the slack'ning cables;<br>Eager bells their signals ring!<br>While there on shore a group is kneeling;<br>Looking upward, now they sing:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Thou who holdest,<br>In the hollow of thy hand,<br>All this vast ocean,<br>Unto this far off land;<br>Guard well, we pray thee,<br>When angry billows foam--<br>Guard well our lov'd ones,<br>And safely bring them home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a wondrous transformation!<br>What a magic change of scene!<br>The parted throngs transfix'd are gazing<br>'Cross the gulf that grows between.<br>Heads are bared, and knees are bended;<br>Voices all are silent there,<br>Save but the throbbing of the engine,<br>And that solemn choral prayer:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rapidly the distance lenghens;<br>We have looked our last adieu,--<br>For each familiar form and feature<br>Now is fading from our view.<br>Glimpses yet of 'kerchiefs waving;<br>Watching still our friends remain;<br>And, waft by fresh'ning seaward breezes,<br>Faintly, sweetly comes the strain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408125" data-title="The Prayer on the Pier de Henry Clay Work" data-description="Proudly foats the ocean steamer,-- Throngs aboard and on the pier; With orders, oaths, and farewells mingled, What a medley greats the ear! Off are cast the slack'ning cables; Eager bells their signals ring! While there on shore a group is kneelin..."></div> </div> </div>

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