Shipwreck

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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Then dropped from sight.
It slipped and slipped,
To break for you.
Ah, brig, good-night
It tossed and tossed, —
It spun and spun,
Its white foot tripped,
O'ertook by blast,
And groped delirious, for morn.
The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue,
To crew and you;
As one that drunken stepped;
A little brig I knew, —

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