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DIRGE FOR A SAILOR by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: BEYOND THE BOURNS OF TIME AND SLEEP
Last Line: THIS SAILOR'S REQUIEM!
Subject(s): GRAVES; SAILING & SAILORS; SEA; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES; OCEAN;

BEYOND the bourns of time and sleep,
Beyond the sway of tides,
A voyager o'er death's darksome deep,
His ship at anchor rides.

He who from boyhood never knew
A garden save the foam,
Whose only rooftree was the blue,
At last has found a home.

And what more fit than that the wave
He loved through life to stem
Should sing above his green sea grave
This sailor's requiem!



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