Classic Poem

Life rolls her millions on earths ocean wide
Like the upheaving of a mighty tide
Man as its waves in busy numbers run
Plying their journey neath the smiling sun
Till comes the ebb of death — & then the rush
Of lifes gay billows in a moment hush
To deadly calms — so with oertaking speed
New tides & ebbs alternetely succeed
& good & bad like shadows & sunlight
Sink endless in the nothingness of night