Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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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 unfurl; 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 ceiling rent, its sunless 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 wreathe ' d 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 are free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life ' s unresting sea! — Oliver Wendell Holmes.