Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Whitman, Walt
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Joy, shipmate, Joy! (Pleas’d to my soul at death I cry,) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy.

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Leaves of Grass, Project Gutenberg eBook #1322

As They Draw to a Close The Untold Want