<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet to J.L. #1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder why your ships are painted green<br>While ours are gray? I’ve heard some sailors say<br>That swift ships, camouflaged, can move unseen<br>Against the sea. Strange, though, it’s always cold gray<br>Winter’s sea that we anticipate.<br>I think perhaps you’re wiser with your green.<br>It is as though you mean to imitate<br>The warmer, friendlier seas that lie between<br>The tropics. I wonder, could it be<br>Your ships are prayers, . their paint a subtle way<br>To challenge God to grant a happier sea<br>Than we’d expect in our dour ships of gray? <br>If so, I pray that God hears your green prayer<br>And sends you always green seas, calm and fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=S.J.+Fulton">S.J. Fulton</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=573261" data-title="Sonnet to J.L. #1 de S.J. Fulton" data-description="I wonder why your ships are painted green/While ours are gray? I’ve heard some sailors say/That swift ships, camouflaged, can move unseen/Against the sea. Strange, though, it’s always cold gray/Winter’s sea that we anticipate./I think perhap..."></div> </div> </div>

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