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Show RE a ead ed HERB RINGER 1913 - 1998 When his boat snapped loose from its moorings, under the screaking of the gulls, he tried at first to wave to his dear friends on shore, but in the rolling fog, they had already lost their faces Too tired even to choose between jumping and calling, somchow he felt absolved and free of his burdens, those mottoes stamped on his name-tag: conscience, ambition, and all that caring. He was content to lie down with the family ghosts in the slop of his cradle, buffeted by the storm, endlessly drifting. Peace! Peace! To be rocked by the Infinite! As if it didn't matter which way was home; as if he didn't know he loved the earth so much he wanted to stay forever. From ‘The Long Boat’ copyright 1985 by Stanley Kunitz ee eee | |