Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, - The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings. And coral reefs lie bare. Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurlg Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, - Its irised ceilring rent, its smnless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil: Still. as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new. Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee Child of the wandering sea. Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is bom Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings. Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length ant Free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by lifels um- resting sea! Oliver Wendell Holmes

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