The adventurers may be fearful and they may be passing beyond the lip of our understanding, but they can rest assured that they will have the wind of love-of their parents, teachers, and friends-supporting them. It is about people venturing into the unknown and about other people, those who love them, letting them go. For it is not, of course, only about boats. In this way, the poem serves to put a frame around the St. This poem is inscribed on the wall of our campus center so that students will see it on their way to the dining hall. There are almost always boats on the river and we have long had one of the top sailing programs in the country.
After all, we are a campus defined by our waterfront on the St. Mary’s College, however, we take the poem to refer to us. A modern replica of the Dove is pictured above.Īt St. It commemorates the blessing of the Arc and the Dove in England, which set off with the first English settlers in Maryland in 1633. The title refers to the Blessing of the Fleet that occurs every October at St. mary’s).” As I explain below, it was written while Lucille was a colleague at St. Yesterday I mentioned Lucille Clifton’s poem “blessing the boats (at st. A replica of the Dove, which landed in St.
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