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First Line: Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still
Last Line: The water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.


Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting -- they discover a thick school of
mossbonkers -- they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course
to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand
ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from
the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.





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