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THE THREE SHIPS

But for all the ships I found there
Still I could not be content…

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With the piles of rusty anchors and

chain, cables large and smol
Broken bones of schips forgotten-there I
found her after all

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She lay there on the water just as

graceful as a gull
Keeping some old builder’s secret in
her strong and slender hull
By her splendid sweep of sheer line and
her keen clean clipper bow
You might know she’d been a beauty…
by god she was one now !

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and I said : My dear although you are

growing old, I Know.
and as crazy and as cranky as can be…
If you’ll take me for your lover oh well
sail the wide seas over
You’re the ship among them all that’s
meant for me !