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the _^ little waves fromwaves from

I saw a s S hip sail on—and after she

had sail'd on, had pass'd,

The waters current in her wake—the little hastening waves

_^ hastening from afar,from afar, smaller on larger,

And the _^ far billows reaching up, with their prying looks

and white necks, bending over, with their with prying looks

Tending _^ [about two letters illegible] gaily with swift flow toward the track left by the _^ departed ship

And the_^ great spread of the sea itself, _^ hoarsely blubbling and gur gurgling thither,

Toward that motley, laughing buoyan d t

streak of itself,

When the ship sailing on, had [stirred?] up displaced the surface,

Undulating, and flashing, so whirling frolicsome

under the sun;

The To the Toward that long, long, shining, and mottled track, _^ with curves,

Where the ship, sailing & tacking, had displaced the

with curves, surface

Thither The _^ little & larger waves, with yearnfully flowing with frag-

~~ments & foam—a long varied procession,~~ A varied procession, with many a fleck of foam & many fragments

where, they

They In There, to the wake of the vessel, _^ they, long _^ & long after

she had pass'd,

Gathering, joyously followed.

Editorial note: This manuscript is a draft of a poem published first as "In the Wake Following" in the December 1874 issue of the New York Daily Graphic. The poem was later revised and published as "After the Sea-Ship."; The verso of the manuscript leaf is blank.

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