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Driftwood

by Cristel Hastings

published in SEA STORIES, July 1923

They sent your ship to distant lands

For silks and spice and gold;

You were to bring a cargo of

The riches that men hold

Above all else, and yet I felt

No joyful pride to see

You in command, though hope ran high,

They took you far from me.

And then one night the shore was strewn

With bits of wood and sailts;

And some one said, as in a dream,

You had encountered gales

And jettisoned the cargo that

The tides had washed ashore.

I knew no matter what the loss

That I had lost far more.

But dawn came to a breaking heart;

I scanned a sunlit sea

And loved the broken, battered wreck

That brought you back to me.