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| Often, for their amusement, bored sailors
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| take albatrosses, vast sea-birds, that sleep
| | :Often, for their amusement, bored sailors |
| | | :take albatrosses, vast sea-birds, that sleep |
| in the air, indolent fellow travellers,
| | :in the air, indolent fellow travellers, |
| | | :following the ship skimming the deep. |
| following the ship skimming the deep.
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| No sooner are they set down on the boards,
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| | | :than those kings of the azure, maladroit, shamefully |
| than those kings of the azure, maladroit, shamefully
| | :let their vast white wings, like oars, |
| | | :trail along their sides, piteously. |
| let their vast white wings, like oars,
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| trail along their sides, piteously.
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| Winged traveller, gauche, gross, useless, laughable,
| | :Winged traveller, gauche, gross, useless, laughable, |
| | | :now, one of them, with a pipe stem, prods you, |
| now, one of them, with a pipe stem, prods you,
| | :who, a moment ago, were beautiful: |
| | | :another, limping, mimics the cripple who flew. |
| who, a moment ago, were beautiful:
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| another, limping, mimics the cripple who flew.
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| The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air,
| | :The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air, |
| | | :who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds: |
| who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds:
| | :on earth, an exile among the scornful, where |
| | | :he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings. |
| on earth, an exile among the scornful, where
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| he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings.
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