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First Line: Steaming the northern rapids - (an old st. Lawrence reminiscence)
Last Line: Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


Steaming the northern rapids -- (an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,
A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why,
Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)
Again 'tis just at morning -- a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me -- I press
through foamdash'd rocks that almost touch me,
Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman
Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.





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