Excerpt from The Wanderer: And Other Poems Of manhood's stronger years, still everywhere I stray, my thoughts seem like the waves to be, As I had drunk the waters' Spirit there, Like him who sung the ocean's majesty, The bard of nature's realm, or earth, or heaven, or sea. His song I echo now to voiceless thrills, As traveler on every ocean's brink In storm or calm, its finished fitness fills With wonder at the mind, whose power could link Such thoughts in words as hushed the world to think! Even they return to gaze upon the deep, Who from the wreck-strewn shore were won't to shrink, When they have learned the lay, sung to the sweep Of his majestic soul o'er seas in rage or sleep. 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.