O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

After being imprisoned due to the deception of Potiphar’s wife Joseph is enabled by God to interpret the dreams of two fellow prisoners. Two years later the Pharaoh has a dream and one of the former prisoners remembers that Joseph was enabled to interpret his dream. The Pharaoh asks Joseph to interpret his dream but Joseph says, “It is beyond my power to do this, but God will tell you what it means.” Joseph is enabled to interpret the dream which saves the kingdom from a famine and allows the Pharaoh to place Joseph in a position of power.someone well do we work to make sure that our blessing comes to fruition? In the same way that God is faithful in fulfilling his blessings, we should be faithful in fulfilling our blessing of others.

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