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Monday, September 9, 2024

Jean Parmentier, sailor-poet

from THE GOLDEN AGE OF MARITIME MAPS (2013)

page 10 "Oceanic Overture"

Who shall know the marvels of the sea,

The horror of perishing there

Of emotional and troubling waves

beyond measure?

Who shall witness her roiled

by heavy winds, Shoved,

Roiled, sublimated and destroyed,

And then suddenly tranquil, without

breaks? Who will know his place in

nature's plan?

But who can say: "I have lived such

and such an adventures,"

And who but can sail above of it?

This one can very well state,

without any doubt, "Oh marvelous

and terrible workmanship

Of the marvels that live beneath"!

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