“Richer am I than he who owns
Great fleets and argosies;
I have a share in every ship
Won by the inland breeze”

— Lucy Larcom

Poems (1869), A Strip of Blue (1870)
Context: Richer am I than he who owns
Great fleets and argosies;
I have a share in every ship
Won by the inland breeze,
To loiter on yon airy road
Above the apple-trees.
I freight them with my untold dreams;
Each bears my own picked crew;
And nobler cargoes wait for them
Than ever India knew, —
My ships that sail into the East
Across that outlet blue.

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