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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 347 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

The Dismantled Ship

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In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor’d near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batter’d ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul’d up at last and
hawser’d tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering.

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