BAPTISM.
I have gone, I have seen, I have known again The swift, sharp lurch and the long sea roll. Steel ribs aching, wind-lashed rain Singing a saga at a black porthole. Moonlight, starlight, Great Bear hung On a jet-black prow deep drunk with spray, Drenched in thunder, white snow flung In the silver of the moon on a wide seaway. I’m washed clean, my sins purged white. Sharp, sweet air and salt-sweet foam, I hold dreams of the Great North light, My heart’s happy and I’ve turned home. —By Wilfred J. Funk, in the New York Evening Post.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 63
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99BAPTISM. Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 63
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