| AFTER the Sea-Ship—after the
whistling winds; |
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| After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and
ropes, |
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| Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up
their necks, |
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| Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: |
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| Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely
prying, |
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| Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves, |
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| Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with
curves, |
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| Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced
the surface; |
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| Larger and smaller waves, in the spread of the ocean,
yearnfully flowing; |
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| The wake of the Sea-Ship, after she passes—flashing and
frolicsome, under the sun, |
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| A motley procession, with many a fleck of foam, and many
fragments, |
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| Following the stately and rapid Ship—in the wake
following. |
