A Poem From Transatlantic

Stretch sea

Stretch away sea and land

We are following thee

Thy lead is dangerous

And glorius

Stretch thyself and us

And make us live

To mount the ladder of horizons

Until we step upon the radiant plateau.

Transatlantic [1933] was Toomer's last and most ambitious novel in which he attempted to give the most extensive treatment of his theme of human development