<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409983" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stone Fleet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a feeling for those ships,<br>Each worn and ancient one,<br>With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam:<br>Ay, it was unkindly done.<br>But so they serve the Obsolete-<br>Even so, Stone Fleet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll say I'm doting; do but think<br>I scudded round the Horn in one-<br>The Tenedos, a glorious<br>Good old craft as ever run-<br>Sunk (how all unmeet!)<br>With the Old Stone Fleet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An India ship of fame was she,<br>Spices and shawls and fans she bore;<br>A whaler when her wrinkles came-<br>Turned off! till, spent and poor,<br>Her bones were sold (escheat)!<br>Ah! Stone Fleet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four were erst patrician keels<br>(Names attest what families be),<br>The Kensington, and Richmond too,<br>Leonidas and Lee:<br>But now they have their seat<br>With the Old Stone Fleet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To scuttle them-a pirate deed-<br>Sack them, and dismast;<br>They sunk so slow, they died so hard,<br>But gurgling dropped at last.<br>Their ghosts in gales repeat<br>Woe's us, Stone Fleet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all for naught. The waters pass-<br>Currents will have their way;<br>Nature is nobody's ally; 'tis well;<br>The harbor is bettered-will stay.<br>A failure, and complete,<br>Was your Old Stone Fleet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409983" data-title="The Stone Fleet de Herman Melville" data-description="I have a feeling for those ships, Each worn and ancient one, With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam: Ay, it was unkindly done. But so they serve the Obsolete- Even so, Stone Fleet! You'll say I'm doting; do but think I scudded round the Hor..."></div> </div> </div>

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