Calm at Sea

Calm at Sea

SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters,

Calmly slumb'ring lies the main,
While the sailor views with trouble

Nought but one vast level plain.

Not a zephyr is in motion!

Silence fearful as the grave!
In the mighty waste of ocean

Sunk to rest is ev'ry wave.

1795.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: Calm at Sea

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