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OCTAVES: 23 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

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First Line: TO CURSE THE CHILLED INSISTENCE OF THE DAWN
Last Line: FOREVER FROM THE CRUMBLED WHARVES OF TIME.
Subject(s): GREED; AVARICE; CUPIDITY;

Here by the windy docks I stand alone,
But yet companioned. There the vessel goes,
And there my friend goes with it; but the wake
That melts and ebbs between that friend and me
Love's earnest is of Life's all-purposeful
And all-triumphant sailing, when the ships
Of Wisdom loose their fretful chains and swing
Forever from the crumbled wharves of Time.




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