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The Sea-Bird

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

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The Sea-Bird

By Madie E. Barnits

By Madie E. Barnits
As THE gray sea-bird sails aloft, In single impulse free, Unmindful of the tempests, or The torrents of the sea,
Without a back returning glance, It starts off from the shore, Leaving the wake of gray behind, And endlessness before—
A light which lifted rises higher, In faith's own impulse free, An exultation owning all, Unto infinity—
Without the motion of a wing, Between the sea and sky, A speck of gray hung out in space In two immensities.
And since it pauses not for storms, And fears not so to dare, The great tides tend to do its will, The currents of the air.
And as its efforts and its will With Nature's own are blent, The forces of the earth and air Still lend to its intent.
Shall I for lack of strength to dare, Or fear of what may be, Lose portion of my part which is Within infinity?
Cleveland, Ohio.