What manner of bark these that engine so ineffectively,
hesitant, confused, tossed by the powerful sea?
What manner of nature it that storms so omnipotently,
unaware, unrestrained, acting as if on a another plane?

What distance between

And what manner of man he who rises so indifferently
as the wooden hands rouse him to the dire certainty:
a gentle rebuke, the sudden cease,
the quantum grain effecting only peace.

What distance