Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 378-382.
“We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades.”
Bridges & Balloons
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
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