Classic Poem

Far out to sea go the fishing junks,
With all sails set,
The tide swings grey and the clouds sway,
The wind sweeps wet;
Sweeps wet from the long coast lying dim
As if mist-born.
Far out they sail, as the stars pale,
The stars of morn.

Far out to sea go the fishing junks,
And I who pass
Upon a deck that is vaster reck
No more, alas,
Of all their life, or they of mine,
Than comes to this, —
That under the sky we live and die,
Like all that is.