Living
Sealed Orders
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Living
We bear sealed orders o'er Life's weltered sea,
Our haven dim and far;
We can but man the helm right cheerily,
Steer by the brightest star,
And hope that when at last the Great Command
Is read, we then may hear
Our anchor song, and see the longed-for land
Lie, known and very near.
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