Explore "An Ocean Voyage" by Sarah Noble Ives on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
There's an ocean wide we must cross to-day, / For it stretches across the Shining Way. / A board will make us a famous boat; / Hurrah! for the high seas. We're afloat!
Alice will pilot across the waves, / Jimmy and I are the galley-slaves; / We bend to the broomstick instead of the oar, / And Alice steers for the further shore.
Carefully on our course we keep / Over the trackless and rolling deep. / Under our vessel slowly swim / Minnows, tadpoles and monsters grim. / (Fishes we know, but have never seen,) / And a bull-frog croaks from the rushes green.
The journey near to an end has grown, / When Alice's rudder strikes a stone. / A lurch-a scramble-a sudden scream, / And over we go in the wet, wet stream.
Alice is dripping, and so am I; / Water has got into Jimmy's eye; / But land is reached-we are safe, though cold. / And we wonder if Mother may chance to scold?