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The Dismantled Ship.

In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
 On sluggish, lonesome, muddy waters, anchor'd
       near the shore,
 An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship,
       disabled, done and broken,
 After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd
       up at last and hawser'd tight,
 Lies rusting, mouldering.

WALT WHITMAN.

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Publication Information
"The Dismantled Ship."  New York Herald  23 February 1888:  4.  Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

Notes
In the "Sands at Seventy" printing of this poem, Whitman omitted "muddy" from the second line, and "and broken" does not appear in the third line.

Whitman Archive ID
per.00097


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