Adrift! A little boat adrift!
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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Adrift! A little boat adrift!
Retrimmed its masts, redecked its sails
One little boat o'erspent with gales
Just as the dawn was red,
One little boat gave up its strife,
And night is coming down!
Just as the dusk was brown,
And gurgled down and down.
Exultant, onward sped!
But angels say, on yesterday,
So sailors say, on yesterday,
Unto the nearest town?
Will no one guide a little boat
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