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ADRIFT! A LITTLE BOAT ADRIFT! by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: And shot — exultant on!
Subject(s): BOATS;
Adrift! A little boat adrift!
And night is coming down!
Will no one guide a little boat
Unto the nearest town?

So Sailors say - on yesterday -
Just as the dusk was brown
One little boat gave up its strife
And gurgled down and down.

So angels say - on yesterday -
Just as the dawn was red
One little boat - o'erspent with gales -
Retrimmed its masts - redecked its sails -
And shot - exultant on!


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