Not the Pilot
NOT THE PILOT.
NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his shipinto port, though beaten back, and many times
baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and
long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers wet, perse-
veres till he reaches his destination, More than I have charged myself, heeded or un-
heeded, to compose a free march for These
States, To be exhilarating music to them, years, centuries
hence.