Sense Sonnet - Acher

Beware Leaving New England

A poem Henry Thoreau wrote,

"Though All the Fates," and he wrote that

Leaving New England in a boat

For wealth in foreign habitat

Was just risking all the fates of

Misfortune for daring to leave

New England, land Thoreau did love.

As example of such to grieve,

Thoreau wrote of a ship so fine

Heading for China via world.

Amass wealth, purpose of design,

But curse of all the fates unfurled.

Local worms chewed wood, chunk by chunk.

The ship in the China Sea sunk.