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Fair held the breeze behind us -- 'twas warm with lovers' prayers,<br />We'd [[MacGuffin|stolen wills]] for ballast and a crew of missing heirs.<br />[[Mysterious Past|They shipped as Able Bastards]] [[Suddenly-Suitable Suitor|till]] [[Secret Legacy|the Wicked Nurse confessed,]]<br />And they worked the old three-decker to the Islands of the Blest.
By ways no gaze could follow, a course unspoiled of Cook,<br />Per Fancy, fleetest in man, our titled berths we took<br />With maids of [[Beauty Equals Goodness|matchless beauty]] and [[Moses in
We asked no social questions -- we pumped no hidden shame --<br />[[Out Giving Birth Back in Two Minutes|We never talked obstetrics when the Little Stranger came:]]<br />We left the Lord in Heaven, we left the fiends in Hell.<br />We weren't exactly Yussufs, but -- Zuleika didn't tell.
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Hull down -- hull down and under -- she dwindles to a speck,<br />[[Dances and Balls|With noise of pleasant music and dancing on her deck]].<br />All's well -- all's well aboard her -- she's left you far behind,<br />With a scent of old-world roses through the fog that ties you blind.
[[Maturity Is Serious Business|Her crews are babes or madmen?]] Her port is all to make? <br />[[Writer
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