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Under a Patched Sail

by Marianne Moore, 1907

“Oh, we’ll drink once more
when the wind’s off shore,”
We’ll drink from the good old jar,
And then to port,
For the time grows short.
Come lad—to the days that are!

Tags: oceans

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