Context: The religious faith expressed in this poem is extremely strong. The poet, comparing his dying to the departure of a ship on a voyage into unknown seas, feels no fear and no reluctance at the prospect of leaving life; he has completely surrendered his will to the force which will carry him away. He knows that his soul may be taken far from all he has ever known, but trusts that he will, at last, see the God whose nature and will he has been able only to infer while on earth.