A change, an always active change,
      An everness of grace,
    Of grace and grandeur, takes its range
      Over the ocean’s face: 
    As in a book for thoughts men look,
      Thoughts in it we can trace! 
    A thought to turn us from ourselves
      And all our petty cares—­
    A thought to move the spirit’s love
      To God, and God’s affairs;
    And thereby give to all that live
      The sympathy that spares—­

    That spares our brother man from blame,
      And pities him when o’er
    His nature come such clouds of shame
      As menaced us before: 
    God only can the sea-swell tame,
      The mental peace restore! 
    Look on the ocean, then, and feel
      Its turmoil and its calm
    Arouse or tranquillise thy mind—­
      A stimulant or balm;
    A thundertone to make thee think,
      Or, gently soothing psalm!

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