Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
The U.S.S. Doris
Miller – a Tall Ship for a Tall Man
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer
her by"
-John Masefield, “Sea Fever
Iron and Steel
For now she is only numbered heaps of steel
Laid out in structure-order at Newport News
Muscled into being through thought and power
Strong craftsmen of the builders’ brotherhood
CVN 81
The lifts, the links, the wirings, the welds, the works
Plans, bolts, tools, heat, sweat, pain, maybe some blood
A touch of salty language for motivation
And then someday
“God bless this ship and all who sail in her”
The Soul of a Ship
The Doris Miller will sail, that brave tall ship -
And Doris Miller himself will be her star
