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THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND

To the

happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns

exiles by the Falk Laws

drowned between midnight and morning of

Dec. 7th, 1875

PART THE FIRST

1

Thou mastering me

God! giver of breath and bread;

World's strand, sway of the sea;

Lord of living and dead;

Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,

And after it almost unmade, what with dread,

Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?

Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.