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Bright skysails ticketing the Line, wink round the Horn
to Frisco, Melbourne . . .
                                       Pennants, parabolas—
clipper dreams indelible and ranging,
baronial white on lucky blue!

      Perennial-Cutty-trophied-Sark!

Thermopylæ, Black Prince, Flying Cloud through Sunda
—scarfed of foam, their bellies veered green esplanades,
locked in wind-humors, ran their eastings down;

      at Java Head freshened the nip
      (sweet opium and tea!)
      and turned and left us on the lee . . .

Buntlines tusseling (91 days, 20 hours and anchored!)
                                                    Rainbow, Leander
(last trip a tragedy)—where can you be
Nimbus? and you rivals two—

            a long tack keeping—
                                                         Taeping?
                Ariel?