A Vessel Tumbling Here And There And Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

A vessel tumbling here and there and
ill-constructed, with creaking timbers
and with winds a-shrieking
this vessel on the green waves by
Pisa sailed on yet touched not the
shores
for the Fates willed that it shall be
the seas.

A giant wave of green came upon a

white faced Poet-Seer though youthful
yet
he held in hand the last few sheets
whereon the divine verse he sung
amidst those storms.

In vain, Neptune was not cajoled nor
the Fates sated.

O here on Earth - the Poet Seer - shrieked
to the ever-oncoming waves of green
we perish to transform, on seas the same!

No sooner said then a great wave-bolt hurled
by Neptune himself at the hest of Fates by cruel
toss the skiff, the sailors, the Poet-Seer overturned.