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Thy VOYAGE; 
 
 OK, 
 
 A SONG OF TIIH SEAS, 
 
 And Other foEMS. 
 
 By rev. E. F. liURK, D.D., 
 
 OF "KccE C'Ki.LM," "Patf.k Mlniji," " Ai> Fiijkm," inc. 
 
 .S>&^ VEN TEEN ILL USTA'A TIONS. 
 
 
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 NEW YORK : ^ 
 
 N E L S O N .K: I' 11 I L L I PS, 
 
 80s BROADWAY. 
 1875. 
 
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 Kntereil according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S74, by 
 
 N F L S O \ & r H I 1. 1 I r S , 
 In the OtTice of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
 
TO 
 
 THE FRIENDS 
 
 THE MANSK AND TIIK CHURCH. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 THE MANSE 9 
 
 i THE CHURCH 15 
 
 THY VOYAGE 19 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Portrait of the Author 2 
 
 ^ The Manse ,0 
 
 \ The Church ,6 
 
 ^ A Song of the Sea ig 
 
 ■-'•And ihus he spake: ■ I now wtel make ' " 20 
 
 "A S TA TELV SONO P,V FOREST SUN ; " 23 
 
 "^ "And FLOATS IHEREON like MIOHIV SWAN " 25 
 
 "Huzza! ihe saii.inc; rainhow " 
 
 29 
 
 " Why stands he ever a r the wheel ? " 3 
 
 Seas of summer " 
 
 35 
 
 "Where reef and shore, in ambush hoar" 37 
 
 " Rocks and shoals, ihat feed " 30 
 
 "As if of steed " 
 
 "By passing throu(;h ihe narrows" 
 
 43 
 
 49 
 
 "As Chrlst steps out from 'mid his kings" 53 
 
 " On ja(;ged rocks to death been stung " 55 
 
 " Hear what the shouting watchman saith " 57 
 
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 The Manse. 
 
THE MANSE. 
 
 Green pastures dotted with cattle and shady 
 
 clumps ; 
 Autumn-woods sprinkled with blood of the wounded 
 
 year ; 
 Blue sky, where a single great cloud-barge drifts 
 
 gently, 
 With its bulwarks of silver and opal and gold. 
 Whence lean (pity our gross eyes see them so 
 
 faintly !) 
 Our guardian spirits, all gently tilting down, 
 From out as many pictured cornucopias, 
 Faint musics, perfumes, zephyrs, sparkles, tinted 
 
 gleams, 
 
THE MANSE. 
 
 I'rcshly cullod i\o\\\ i^aalons just this side o{ 
 
 heaven, 
 C^n scene almost as lair, aiul oii the tliankful Manse 
 Nestled snuj^l\- amid the sweet CX'loher j:;lo\v. 
 Behold the nestlini; ! Ask ye tu>\v whose home 
 
 this is ? 
 Don bt less 'tis CJirist's cii')i manse, though (.^I'ten 
 
 called niine. 
 In sij^n whereof see Latin cross uplifted hi^h. 
 And littiuj^ hii^^hcr still tlu^ sii^lu '.A men devout — 
 Even to llim whose blood did bu\- b(.nh us and 
 
 ours. 
 To that hii^h /eniih. all the hii:^hest stars beyond, 
 My thoui^ht L^oes tleeino- as from some heavenlv 
 
 bow — 
 
THE MANSE. 
 
 Past barofc anirclic, past th(; azure: seas on seas — 
 
 And conies at last to land hriL,dit with (Eternal day. 
 
 And, lo, another Mansewood and another Manse 
 
 Whose mazy pomp of domes and towers and bat- 
 tlements 
 
 Smites through and through, with glory keen as 
 ])attle-swords, 
 
 My conquered sight, and leaves it slain and stark 
 henceforth 
 
 To all that shines below. 
 
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 \Tttt"tMfitn 
 
 
 The Clivireh, 
 
TiiR CHURCH. 
 
 The gray church rose on the hill, and climbed 
 
 Aloft, stone by stone ; and I stood on it, 
 
 And saw c|uite o'er the sea of human life 
 
 To that far Port which, like a setting sun. 
 
 Swims deep in gold. Then waters vanished ; 
 
 Vanished east and west ; vanished all 
 
 But the far zenith, and the rising pile 
 
 Beneath, and swift e](;ctric speech darting 
 
 Between the two. And the climbing temple 
 
 Said to God, "I come to thee, () Most High; 
 
 Come painfully, but bring with nie the thoughts 
 
 Of men, their Sabbaths, and their costly selves." 
 
 And God said, " Come, and bring my little ones. 
 
 My gray-haired sires and mothers, all my rich 
 
 And poorest ; and sheep without a shepherd, 
 
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THE CIWRCII. 
 
 Vxo\\\ roiii^h hillsiclo and trom \alc. Let tluMii 
 
 climb 
 In- the stroll;^ huUler ot th\' rui^i^ed rcK^-is. 
 Anil L;r>uK\l Inittressos, aiul taper tower, 
 liite these skies which thou dost ])ierce tor them, 
 Xor let them fear the di//v thorou^^hfare. 
 ("•n every rock\- spur, and ledi^e. aiul slope, 
 Shall stand my aui^els with their helping- hands ; 
 And so, Sabbath b\' Sabbath, a^^e b\- a^^e. 
 The stream ot souls shall pass securel\- up 
 '\\\\ stonv steeps into nu' Hcst lAMnjde." 
 
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 IU-.I It thi-- nooU ol I, \nduu). /; ^' ' 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 I saw a form majestic, 
 
 Hard by the ocean standing; 
 And thus he spake : " I now will make, 
 
 Just at this nook of landino-, 
 A goodly ship, a steamer ship, 
 
 To pass this ocean over : 
 My steel shall smoke on heart of oak ■ 
 And woods most rich, with careful stroke, 
 To make such ship as till now broke 
 
 A path in ocean never." 
 
rnv lovAGE. 
 
 II. 
 
 }lis hrow was hro;ul aiul \o\\\\ 
 
 Ills iiu>l was kiHMi aiul shinino-; 
 Ami siHMi is scHMi aii orran ([ikhmi 
 
 I ' poll \\\v sluM'c ri\-linino-. 
 Im'oiii stoin to stern, troin sp.ir to kool, 
 
 Was (>\c'r ship so ipn'onU' ! — 
 A stalcl)' soui; hs lorcst sun^' 
 To stat(^K- sra, whose \'oice has ruiii;", 
 Tinu" mil ot miiul, its aisK-s ainoiij^", 
 
 For soiiL!" tliat now is roadw 
 
iM'MI 
 
 
 
 
 "A Ht!>l.'ily H'jiii.i by f'or'jHf, nuny 
 To stately Hen "— 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ro 
 
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 sini 
 
 te 
 
 out the 
 
 wet 
 
 Iges ! 
 
 
 
 The 
 
 stoc 
 
 ks 
 
 all tierce 
 
 >ly 
 
 spiirniiii^", 
 
 \Vl 
 
 th s; 
 
 lils : 
 
 ill 
 
 set, and 
 
 sai 
 
 Is all 
 
 wet, 
 
 
 Ami 
 
 lnvs 
 
 within her 
 
 hurniiio-, 
 
 
 Away ship slopes, awav she smokes, 
 
 Into the startled watcM" ; 
 And iK^ats thereon like n1i«;ht^■ swan. 
 Into its nati\e sea lltnvn down. 
 On plumes cil snt)w. at break v>{ dawn, 
 
 W ith dayhiwdv pomp ujhmi her. 
 
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 "And floats thereon like mighty swan." 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 IV. 
 
 And daybreak pomp zuithiii her, 
 Now see her hucrelv takino-- 
 A sparkling freight, a gorgeous weight, 
 
 Its shipward way is making 
 In streams of boats and streams of vans, 
 
 And goes beneath the hatches ; 
 Till that great hold with wealth untold 
 Of fairest gems, and purest gold. 
 And wares superb by masters old. 
 The womb of sunset matches. 
 
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 THY VOYAGE. 
 
 
 
 
 V. 
 
 V 
 
 H 
 
 Lizza ! the 
 
 sailing' rainljow 
 
 
 
 l""orth on 
 
 its main is starting, 
 
 
 just as the; 
 
 sun has well beirun 
 
 
 
 lis level 
 
 glories darting; 
 
 
 R 
 
 i^ht (inward drivers the valiant sh 
 
 p. 
 
 
 As drive 
 
 the orbs through heaven ; 
 
 N 
 
 or sound of smoke, nor sound of 
 
 stroke, 
 
 N 
 
 or sound 
 
 ^{ A\a\'es b\- swift prow 
 
 broke, 
 
 Betra\s liow 
 
 fast that shapely oak 
 
 
 
 Alono- th 
 
 e seas is driven. 
 
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" Huzza ! the sailing rainoow 
 Forth on its main is starting, 
 
 Just as the sun has well begun 
 Its level glories darting." 
 

 
 THY VOYAGE. 
 
 
 
 VI. 
 
 Strano-e- 
 
 —but 
 
 a single sailor 
 
 That 
 
 giant deck possessing, 
 
 While h 
 
 eart 
 
 of oak with giant stroke 
 
 Through 
 
 unknown seas is pressing ! 
 
 Why stands 
 
 he ever at the wheel, 
 
 And 
 
 llames his sight alway 
 
 On star 
 
 and 
 
 chart, on star and chart, 
 
 Mlndlcss 
 
 of 
 
 sail, or steamer-heart 
 
 Where royal 
 
 fires do peasant part 
 
 And 
 
 toil 
 
 with engines tawny? 
 
 
 
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 ipiiii 
 
 " Wliy st=inds hs ever pit the wheel, 
 
 And flames his sicihl aJway 
 On star and chart" — 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 VI r. 
 
 List ! I will speak the secret : 
 
 A spell this shij) is biiuling, 
 Strong-er than hond which ma<^Ic wand 
 
 About Stoneheni'-e sent windino-, 
 Then drew the mass at lightning pace 
 
 Across the foaming Channel; 
 W'hate'er he will, whate'er he nill, 
 Whate'er ma)' hap of good or ill, 
 Upon his oaken whirlwind still, 
 
 Sweeps on the loneK' sailor. 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Naught but the wheel is left him ; 
 
 Nauirht but the careful cruidino;; 
 ^ To save this ship, this meteor ship, 
 
 Which 'neath his feet is g-liding-. 
 Its sails are spread by spirit hands! 
 
 Like hands feed fires and waters ! 
 
 And none can go, above, below, 
 / 
 
 To furl those sails or tame this glow, 
 Though swollen cheeks of tempest blow 
 On white teeth of the breakers. 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 IX. 
 
 And, sooth, no seas of summer 
 
 Before this ship are glowing — 
 Waters all deep, all waves asleep, 
 
 And zephyrs ever blowing; 
 A laughing main, whose beams and songs 
 
 Proclaim the great Pacific — 
 O no ! O no ! the chart will show 
 Far other main this queen must plow, 
 With rounded sheets and flashing prow, 
 
 Beneath that spell terrific. 
 
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" Seas of summer 
 Before this ship are glowing. 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 Far other main, O sailor, 
 
 Thy prow is now exploring; 
 Thy hand is on the lion's mane, 
 
 And in thine ear his roaring! 
 Lo, -cui>i/ry brine, whose storms chase ships, 
 
 Willi hue and cry most fearful. 
 Where reef and shore, in ambush hoar, 
 With stony spears lay wait to gore 
 The ships which hunter storms press sore 
 
 Upon that ambush dreadful. 
 
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"^A'l^^ere reef and. shore, in ambusn iioar, 
 
 With stony spears lay wait to gore 
 
 The ships which hunter storms press sore." 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XL 
 
 This knows that sailor lonely, 
 
 Who at the wheel is standing ; 
 And hence he feels, and hence he deals. 
 
 As but the wheel commanding; 
 This does he turn to left or right 
 
 As star and chart may beckon ; 
 Steering with heed that headlong speed. 
 Away from rocks and shoals, that feed 
 On fleets of ships, and still have greed 
 
 No end of ships can slacken. 
 
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"V ,, 
 
 "Rocks and shoals, that feed 
 On fleets of ships." 
 

 THY VOYAGE. 
 
 
 XII. 
 
 
 Now ask ye what this ship is, 
 
 
 That o'er the brine is steaming, 
 
 
 Swiftly as day speeds on its way 
 
 
 When sun of joy is beaming? 
 
 
 This wealthy ship, that must go on 
 
 
 Whatever fate may threaten, 
 
 
 But which may still, by single will. 
 
 
 Be steered aside to good from ill, 
 
 
 By means of star, and chart, and skill, 
 
 
 And reach at last its haven ? 
 
 
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 THY 
 
 VOYAGE. 
 
 
 
 
 XIII. 
 
 
 
 man 
 
 it is thy 
 
 spirit, 
 
 
 Wh 
 
 ch thus i? 
 
 > 
 
 > mutely sweeping 
 
 Al 
 
 ong 
 
 the years 
 
 where man appears 
 
 
 His 
 
 sole prob 
 
 ation keeping : 
 
 O 
 
 man 
 
 it is thy 
 
 wealthy soul, 
 
 
 By 
 
 single pru 
 
 dence guarded, 
 
 Whose 
 
 foamy sp* 
 
 sed, as if of steed 
 
 In 
 
 fright profoun 
 
 d from battle freed. 
 
 By 
 
 dint of word, 
 
 or dint of deed, 
 
 
 Can 
 
 never be 
 
 retarded. 
 
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" As if of sleecl 
 In fright profound from battle freed." 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Can never be retarded — 
 
 All strength and skill conspiring. 
 Still, thou canst do, with labor true, 
 
 What well is worth desiring : 
 The speed nor might nor skill can check; 
 
 To thee to guide is given — 
 And thou canst wear thy soul afar 
 From wrecking sin. that foulest bar 
 That ever fought with foani a star, 
 
 'Till port is made in Heaven. 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XV. 
 
 By thee, O Star of Jacob, 
 
 Which beamy prow goes meeting- 
 By thy bright eye, which in each sky 
 
 And in each wave hes beating, 
 And makes that wave, however grim, 
 
 Rich as the wine of Eshcol ; 
 And tlushes thee, swan ot the sea, 
 With the glory of Calvary, 
 Until swan of the sky thou be — 
 
 Cleaving the Life Eternal. 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 
 1>\- thoo, O shilling- Scripture, 
 
 
 Which hcann- wheel g'oos heedino- ; 
 
 
 \S\ thv bright scroll, whore sailing;" soul 
 
 
 Each peril dark is reading ; 
 
 
 For One looked down from sapphire hei 
 
 ;hts 
 
 On all our deeps and shallows. 
 
 
 And drew with care a chart most lair; 
 
 
 Then cast it down, a falling star, 
 
 
 Into each ship descried afar, 
 
 
 Crossin^^- these earthly billows. 
 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 By these twin-stars foocthcr. 
 
 Whole ship with h'oht anointino-, 
 
 And joinino- rays in one dear blaze, 
 One blazing- finger, pointinq- 
 
 This way and that across the waves, 
 Which 'ncath its oiory kindle, 
 
 Away from rock and shoal that block 
 
 The way to port, and hoarsely mock, 
 Of broken ships, the groan and shock. 
 And threaten Death Eternal. 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 And so amid these breakers, 
 
 All cruel and blaspheming. 
 Without a scar, without a mar. 
 
 Thy queenly ship goes steaming ; 
 Until, afar, on ocean rim, 
 
 A grain of gold arises. 
 And stealing on, and stealing on. 
 From grain to star, from star to sun. 
 Becomes at last the Haven won — ■ 
 
 By passing through the Narrows. 
 
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 " By passing tlirough the Narrows. 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Forth on the golden Crescent ! 
 
 Across it sharply faring, 
 Until thou find the cusps behind 
 
 Into each other wearing! 
 Now Golden Horn, become a Crown, 
 
 All round the sky is Hashing 
 With climbing towers, and domes, and bowers. 
 Of sculj)tured gems, where reign the Powers 
 Who wisely steered through earthly hours, 
 
 On rocks infernal dashing. 
 
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 THY VOYAGE. 
 
 
 XX. 
 
 Oh 
 
 see yon vacant Diamond 
 
 
 Whose quay thy ship is making ! 
 
 Oh 
 
 see its towers, whence morning hours 
 
 
 In sunset seas are breaking! — 
 
 Whence trump and banner's eager throbs 
 
 
 Go on the bahn contendinof, 
 
 As 
 
 kings throng down, with harp and crown. 
 
 
 And purple mantle pending, 
 
 To 
 
 bring their brother to his own, 
 
 An 
 
 d seat him there on starry throne, 
 
 
 All earthly thrones transcending. 
 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Now drop the ready anchor — 
 
 Lift up triumphant singing — 
 Let host on host set golden coast 
 
 And golden welkin ringing! 
 As Christ steps out from 'mid his kings 
 
 To greet the landing sailor ; 
 Then takes his hand, and from the strand, 
 Lip steps of pearl to portals grand, 
 hi triumph leads the dazzling band — 
 
 And thou art home forever. 
 
"As Clnrist steps out from 'mid his kings 
 
 To greet the landing sailor ; 
 Then takes his hand, and from the strand. 
 Up steps of pearl to portals grand, 
 In triumph leads the dazzling band — 
 
 And thou art home forever.'" 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Joy ! -that this wealthy vessel, 
 
 or whicli thou hast the saving-, 
 Found not itJ4 way some careless day 
 
 Where waves on rocks were raving 
 And fiercely swinging round and round 
 
 The whirlwind's pinions under. 
 All madly sprung the skies among, 
 Then madly back by skies been llung, 
 On jagged rocks to death been stung, 
 
 'Mid di roe on diree of thunder. 
 
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 O" j^ggecl rocks to death been stung, 
 'Mid dirge on dirge of thunder." 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Ho, all ve many soul-ships 
 
 Across our ocean darlin*:;;; 
 Or crossino- here or crossing;' there, 
 
 just landing- or just starting- ! 
 Hear what the shoutino- watchman saith. 
 
 From out his loud sea trumpet, 
 To him who slec-ps upon these deeps, 
 Or him who at his bubbles keeps, 
 Rlowino' or catchino- theni while sweeps 
 
 This wav and that the wheel unkept. 
 
I'M ' Ml .lin, II'MII 
 
 ll|||,v;||v"illiii|,,,| 
 
 i||Pi'i|;|;!i;!Jr:::!i;;'- 
 
 "Hear what the shouting watchman saith. 
 From out his loud sea trumpet." 
 
THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 " Ho ! Ho ! O sailor foolish ! 
 
 Dost see that mighty gliding 
 Which in thy name makes furrow flame, 
 
 Whate'er may seem betidine — 
 A gliding as of arrow best 
 
 Shot forth by strongest archer ; 
 
 Which naught can check, but aught may wreck, 
 
 If Star and Chart all vainly beck, 
 
 And reins lie loose upon the neck, 
 Of thy fleet ocean charger? — " 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 xxy, 
 
 " Bethink thee what a chareer, 
 
 'Mid rocks and deaths is flvino-, 
 As birds of prey haste to the fray 
 
 Where crowd the dead and dying ! 
 Bethink thee what a rainbow ship 
 
 To thy sole charge is given ! 
 Lay hand of steel on truant wheel ; 
 Eyes keen as swords let twin-stars feel ; 
 Twin-stars, like suns, thy path reveal, 
 Till path of gold pursues thy keel 
 
 Into the port of Heaven." 
 
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THY VOYAGE. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 " And then that host of jewels, 
 
 With eyes of rainbow lading- 
 Thy goodl)' ship, thy royal ship, 
 
 Shall see a royal trading — 
 When talent one shall to thee bring, 
 
 Of cities ten,, the scepter; 
 And that small wheel so wisely wrought, 
 
 Shall wider grow and brighter, 
 And still expand its glowing band, 
 In flight sublime, till orbit, grand 
 As path of suns, flames round the land, 
 The oroodlv land, the trolden land, 
 
 Which thou shalt rule forever." 
 
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