“And see! she stirs!
She starts,—she moves,—she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 349-354.

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American poet 1807–1882

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