ETERNITY

Walter Samuel Swisher is the author of these lines:

Unquiet sea, that endlessly doth stretch

Beyond the straining, finite sight of man:

Why dost thou toss in infinite unrest,

Oh, why no far, faint shore-line can we scan?

Full many a bark thy serried billows crossed,

Full many a sail hath spread before the wind,

But none hath e’er returned; the tempest-tost

And anxious mariner doth haven find

In fairer clime, in sunny land afar,

Where no storms rudely break or winds contend.

There nothing enters in their joy to mar,

Who have the peace of God, which knows no end.

Oh, may we, too, that stand with straining eye--

Looking far out, where wind and wave contend--

Set sail with hope to those fair lands that lie

Beneath the peace of God, that knows no end.

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