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"Life is an expedition to unknown territories. Adverse winds may veer round and the calm may be disrupted any time, but don't lose hope and pull on" ~ By Poet Leaving the sheltered confines of the past We embarked on an expedition, fresh and new, With the present volume and its contents closed down To open another and pore over its pages anew. Everything was calm and still as we set out, Except the pain of being cast loose from our anchorage Over the swelling magnitude, we sailed past, To alight into the novelties of another world. On the bosom of a tranquil sea, with fleecy clouds above We moved on to realms, fanciful and new, And continued to sail over the lolling waters, Gazing at the finny herds in undulating waves. But sudden was the turn of wind and weather. The waves rose to mountain heights. Thunders bellowed over the wild waters. And the sea into an aggressive fiend turned. The billows lashed and crashed over the rocks. All around was the booming sound of rushing waves. Flashes of lightning left rents in engulfing gloom, And the ship, adrift in the roaring currents. At a point when it was about to drown The tempest subsided; the sky turned clear. What Providence has saved us from our peril? We keep wondering now and ever! Knowing that tempests will again strike, And our vessel will be rocked hither and thither, Now, with greater caution in every move, With the riggings once more fastened tight, And with the blue line of a cherished past, Receding quickly away like a cloud in the horizon, We continue our expedition, braving the waves, And sail past to regions far and unknown!
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