Poem: “Gold” by Herman Melville

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Gold

We rovers bold,
    To the land of Gold,
Over the bowling billows are gliding:
    Eager to toil,
    For the golden spoil,
And every hardship biding.
    See! See!
Before our prows’ resistless dashes
The gold-fish fly in golden flashes!
    ’Neath a sun of gold,
    We rovers bold,
On the golden land are gaining;
    And every night,
    We steer aright,
By golden stars unwaning!
All fires burn a golden glare:
No locks so bright as golden hair!
    All orange groves have golden gushings;
    All mornings dawn with golden flushings!
In a shower of gold, say fables old,
A maiden was won by the god of gold!
    In golden goblets wine is beaming:
    On golden couches kings are dreaming!
    The Golden Rule dries many tears!
    The Golden Number rules the spheres!
Gold, gold it is, that sways the nations:
Gold! gold! the center of all rotations!
    On golden axles worlds are turning:
    With phosphorescence seas are burning!
    All fire-flies flame with golden gleamings!
    Gold-hunters’ hearts with golden dreamings!
    With golden arrows kings are slain:
    With gold we’ll buy a freeman’s name!
In toilsome trades, for scanty earnings,
At home we’ve slaved, with stifled yearnings:
No light! no hope! Oh, heavy woe!
When nights fled fast, and days dragged slow.
        But joyful now, with eager eye,
        Fast to the Promised Land we fly:
            Where in deep mines,
            The treasure shines;
        Or down in beds of golden streams,
        The gold-flakes glance in golden gleams!
            How we long to sift,
            That yellow drift!
        Rivers! Rivers! cease your goings!
            Sand-bars! rise, and stay the tide!
            ’Till we’ve gained the golden flowing;
            And in the golden haven ride!

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