Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "The Four Seas Are Brothers" (1921)
The four seas are brothers.
Thus the age old legend runs.
And the kinship shows
In each wind that blows
From the poles to tropic suns.
The four seas are brothers
To the folk who dwell ashore;
For the tide that sweeps
Over shoals and deeps
Is the same in sigh or roar.
The four seas are brothers
Whether North, East, South or West.
For their fountain head
Is the common bed
Where the bones of wreckage rest.
The four seas are brothers.
And ne'er shall be more parts.
And a man is a man
Despite pride or ban,
Matters not from whence he starts.
Published in Poems of the Four Seas, 1921