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Excerpt from The English Review: September, 1915 Careen and dip around the tip Of the masthead - when sleep would seal My eyes and heal me of my scars. I broke the sacred sleep of Silent seas And woke them with my cheers: I startled night and morning with my shouts and with tears, I troubled eve and dawning with my doubts and with fears, I silenced ocean's voices with my pleas: Vaunted, trembled, hoped, despaired, Cared not a whit, then doubly cared. Yet all the while my vessel tilled The barren pastures of the seas, And I steered ou - had I not willed? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.