The Immortal Treasure Chest
Being an ex U.S. Navy man and having spent four of my best years in the Navy, I often think of the haunting idea of ....
The Immortal Treasure Chest
There is a treasure beneath the sea
Which is truly a part of you and me —
It rests unclaimed by those who’d presume
To plumb the depths of its watery tomb,
And its priceless worth could never be weighed —
For our lives today with its “own” made a trade.
It’s not the cargo of silver and gold
Once lost by ships in warfares of old —
Nor is it the pearl with a value so high
That “brutes” have battled for — live or die!
No, it’s something by far much greater than all
Which most have forgotten, but some will recall:
It’s the Spirit of those who had blazed the way —
The heroic “makers of today” —
Our ancestral forbears in terminal strife
Who sank in triumph to raise us to life;
And few really know of, or give little thought
To the birth of our freedom for which they fought —
While so beneath the seas still rest,
The immortal “human” treasure chest!
Thane Cornell
Carson City