Ambergris

10 AMBERGRIS This message of good hope, good trust, good fate, And good estate : Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; Your faith wax firmer than a ship at sleep On the grey deep, Anchored in some most certain anchorage From ocean’s rage ; Your patience stand when mountains shake and quail Before the gale Of God’s great tribulation. Make thee sure Thou canst endure ! And work, work ever, sleep not, gird thy head With garlands red Of blood from swollen veins forced in bitter toil To win some spoil Of knowledge from the caverns of the deep ! So shall the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with loftier fires Than earth’s desires. So shall thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time, And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !