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First Line: Dark sailors lurch through alleys of the town
Last Line: Where no voice echoes and no white gull flies.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


Dark sailors lurch through alleys of the town,
Leaving behind a breath of clove, the feel
Of winds from tropic islands when the keel
Plows through the foaming surf. Their hands are brown
And curved from oars and letting anchors down,
Chilled by quick albicore and gracile eel
Writhing upon their hooks, the clash of steel,
And icy waters where a man's hopes drown.

Dark sailors laugh, sitting before an inn,
Drinking hot liquor -- yet anon their eyes
Gaze strange and cold above a cannakin,
And they fall silent, seeing with surprize,
A bitter headland, frore and chill as sin,
Where no voice echoes and no white gull flies.





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