Later, the speaker compares it to a "bark that flings /
The third stanza mentions the "silent toil" of the title object, which the speaker describes as a "child of the wandering sea." Later, the speaker compares it to a "bark that flings / On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings." The speaker states that from its "dead lips a clearer note is born / Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn!" and sees its "irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed," leading him to exclaim "Wrecked is the ship of pearl!" Feeling "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by" the title object, the speaker urges "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul." FTP, identify this 1858 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, about a sea shell.
The third stanza mentions the "silent toil" of the title object, which the speaker describes as a "child of the wandering sea."
“The {Chambered Nautilus}”