Poem: “I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night” by Stephen Crane

War is Kind & Other Lines (1905)

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I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night

I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave
The dwindling boom of the steel thing’s striving
The little cry of a man to a man
A shadow falling across the greyer night
And the sinking of the small star.

Then the waste, the far waste of waters
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.

Remember, thou, O ship of love,
Thou leavest a far waste of waters
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.

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I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night

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