Today I will let the old boat stand
Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in
To the pulse of a far, deep-steady sway.
And I will rest and dream and sit on the deck
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lovely poem, especially this line, For ours is the quest of an unknown shore. Congrats on being poet of the day!
A reader who likes this choice from Carl Sandburg may kindly see a poem I wrote as an under-graduate in 1952, 'A Song of Waiting'; I sent it to PH decades later, and was pleased to see it included in my web-page (21/318) . A different age, a hemisphere away, but the theme is basically the same. A. Madhavan