“The vessel, though her masts be firm,
Beneath her copper bears a worm.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Monday, Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2 <br class="br"> A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Monday

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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

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