OCTOBER DAY-MOON
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Loosed from her secret moorings, The thin and silver moon, Floats wide above these oceans Of yellow afternoon,— Who slipped her fragile cables, And blew to sea too soon. She bears no bales—but wonder, Not anything of note: How should she, being merely A slender petal-boat?... But rated in the shipping: The dearest tramp afloat.