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ages, the inextricable, the river-tied and the mountain-tied.
A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God
and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers
the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river
(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.
The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk
red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river
The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the
I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from
— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river
— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture