Nitrates and phosphates for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home,... the world will die a little more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now launch the small ship, now as the body dies and life departs, launch out, the fragile soul... in the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith with its store of food and little cooking pans and change of clothes,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!... Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the ...sweet stench of corruption that is all around them--the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,... An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done, After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight, Lies rusting, mouldering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »