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The Middle Watch [from Songs Of The Fleet]

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Title:     The Middle Watch [from Songs Of The Fleet]
Author: Henry Newbolt [More Titles by Newbolt]

In a blue dusk the ship astern
Uplifts her slender spars,
With golden lights that seem to burn
Among the silver stars.
Like fleets along a cloudy shore
The constellations creep,
Like planets on the ocean floor
Our silent course we keep.

_And over the endless plain,
Out of the night forlorn
Rises a faint refrain,
A song of the day to be born--
Watch, oh watch till ye find again
Life and the land of morn._

From a dim West to a dark East
Our lines unwavering head,
As if their motion long had ceased
And Time itself were dead.


Vainly we watch the deep below,
Vainly the void above,
They died a thousand years ago--
Life and the land we love.

_But over the endless plain,
Out of the night forlorn
Rises a faint refrain,
A song of the day to be born--
Watch, oh watch till ye find again
Life and the land of morn._


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Henry Newbolt's poem: Middle Watch [from Songs Of The Fleet]

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