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The Mast
«A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.»
«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
«Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say»
«They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.»
«Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.»
«Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.»
«The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.»