AMPHORA 
IV 
 
 
HOU star at sea, that still dost point 
 The unimaginable goal, 
With eucharistic rays anoint 
The wounds of this my sinful soul ! 
 
The seas are strong, the charts obscure ; 
The compass spells a traitor rune. 
Do thou exalt thy loyal lure 
Above the dead deceitful moon ! 
 
The sailors mutiny ; the storm 
Wilder and wilder shrieks and wails, 
And phantoms ghastly and difform 
Haunt thy poor captain as he sails. 
 
Grant, as death’s iceberg threatens me, 
Sin’s fog, Satanic spite that bars, 
That I may keep these eyes on Thee, 
Star on the sea that blots the stars ! 
Amen. 
T 
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