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First Line: What are you staring at, mariner-man
Last Line: "(and what can that matter to me?)"


"WHAT are you staring at, mariner-man,
Wrinkled as sea-sand and old as the sea?"
Those trains will run over their tails, if they can,
Snorting and sporting like porpoises. Flee
The burly, the whirligig wheels of the train,
As round as the world and as large again,
Running half the way over to Babylon, down
Through fields of clover to gay Troy town --
A-puffing their smoke as grey as the curl
On my forehead as wrinkled as sands of the sea! --
But what can that matter to you, my girl?
(And what can that matter to me?)"





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