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WAR IS KIND: 6 by STEPHEN CRANE

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First Line: I EXPLAIN THE SILVERED PASSING OF A SHIP AT NIGHT
Last Line: FOR LONG AND IN LONELINESS.
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving,
The little cry of a man to a man,
A shadow falling across the greyer night,
And the sinking of the small star;
Then the waste, the far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.
Remember, thou, O ship of love,
Thou leavest a far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.



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