Waves in the Vessel's wake
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I saw a sShip 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, 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 buoyandt |
| 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. |
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