The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
In a ______ of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the ______ of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
Over the mirrors ______
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls — grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the ______ mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black ______ blind.
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded ______
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"…
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The ______ Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister ______
For her — so gaily great —
A Shape ______ Ice, for the time far and dissociate.
And as ______ smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In ______ silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed ______ be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding ______ their later history,
Or sign that they were bent
______ paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one ______ event,
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars ______ hemispheres.