WHILE we slumber and sleep The sun leaps up from the deep -- Daylight born at the leap! -- Rapid, dominant, free, Athirst to bathe in the uttermost sea. While we linger at play -- If the year would stand at May! -- Winds are up and away Over land, over sea, To their goal wherever their goal may be. It is time to arise, To race for the promised prize, -- The Sun flies, the Wind flies -- We are strong, we are free, And home lies beyond the stars and the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862] by GEORGE M. BAKER THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNET: POOR LISA by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON OXFORD IN WAR-TIME by LAURENCE BINYON MOONLIGHT IN SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |