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The Spike or Victoria College Review October 1930

Ghost Ships

page 4

Ghost Ships

were they
or were they not

one moment they appeared so sharply clear
and then the next
like wraiths thai overstayed the hours of night
were quickly gone

but now
with urgent sails all limned in misty white
it seemed a barque appeared
betwixt the distant ocean and the sky
her masts were plain
and almost one could hear her stalwart hull
when soon
as clouds that cluster when the winds go by
and take a thousand shapes at every whim
its magic form
that thus had sailed from out the mystic void
was spirited away as it had come

and others too
of beauteous line and sail
and some of shapes
that long had plied the ocean in their pride
at times but faint
occasionally clear
and bright as if a meagre league or so
divided them

but all alike
would come in wondrous splendour
stay awhile
and then dissolve like shadows with the dusk

and as he gazed
an ever growing terror seized his soul
as one by one would come
and pass away
while in his tortured brain he ever asked
with wondering despair

are they
or are they not