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The Ship-Dwellers

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WE CHANGED OUR MINDS ABOUT BEING WILLING TO SAIL PAST

TO ME IT WAS ALL TRUE, ALL ROMANCE—ALL POETRY

SOMEBODY SENT ME A BASKET OF FRUIT

THEY ARE AN ATTRACTIVE LOT—THE REPROBATES

GAVE HIM THE "ICY MITT"

THEY COULD DIVE LIKE SEALS

TWO MEN TAKE YOU IN HAND, AND AWAY YOU GO

DID A SORT OF FANDAROLE

THEN IT DAWNED UPON THE DIPLOMAT

BUT NOW GIBRALTAR, THE CROUCHING LION OF TRAFALGAR, HAD RISEN FROM THE SEA

WE COULD HAVE LISTENED ALL NIGHT TO BEÑUNES

"THAT IS THE KASBA"

ONE DOES NOT HURRY THE ORIENT—ONE WAITS ON IT

MARVELLOUS BASKETS AND QUEER THINGS

WE DID NOT CARE MUCH FOR PARKS

ETERNALLY EAST WITH NO HINT OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD

TWO BENT, WRINKLED WOMEN WEAVING LACE OUTSIDE THE DOOR

WE LOOKED ACROSS THE ENTRANCE AND THERE ROSE THE ACROPOLIS, HIGH AGAINST THE BLUE

HE WOULD SWING HIS ARMS AND BEGIN, "YOU SEE—!" THE REST REQUIRED A MIND-READER

I WOULD HAVE APPLIED FOR THE POSITION IN THE CHORUS MYSELF

TOOK TURNS ADDRESSING THE MULTITUDE

ONE'S AGE, STATED ON OATH, GOES WITH A PASSPORT

KEYEFF

I WANTED TO CARRY AWAY ONE OF THOSE TOMBSTONES

ALL THE PLAINS AND SLOPES OF THE OLD CITY, WITH ITS WHITE FRAGMENTS AND POOR RUINED HARBOR, LAY AT OUR FEET

FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, BAALBEC BECAME A PLACE OF ALTARS

SO THE PATRIARCHS JOURNEYED; SO, TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER, JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVELLED INTO EGYPT

URGING US TO PARTAKE OF THE PRECIOUS STUFF, WITHOUT STINT

ASKED HIM IF HE WOULDN'T EXECUTE A LITTLE COMMISSION FOR ME IN THE BAZAARS

THE PATRIARCH KNEW ALL ABOUT JAFFA

JERUSALEM—ITS BUBBLE-ROOFED HOUSES AND DOMES, ITS CYPRESS AND OLIVE TREES

A CAMEL TRAIN LED THE WAY THROUGH THE GATES

THE DEPTH OF THEIR FALL

THE WAY OF THE CROSS

THE TRUE GOLGOTHA—THE PLACE OF THE SKULL

A VAST INDIFFERENCE TO ALL PUNY THINGS

SANCTUARY IN KARNAK

GADDIS

I MADE A PICTURE OF THE FLY-BRUSH BRIGADE

ITS MAGNIFICENT PYLONS OR ENTRANCE WALLS ... AND THEN ONCE MORE WE WERE ON THE DONKEYS

THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR ... ONCE MORE REFLECTING ITS COLUMNS IN THE NILE

THINK OF WATERING A WHOLE WHEAT-FIELD WITH A WELL-SWEEP AND A PAIL

GOT IT MADE CHEAP SOMEWHERE, WITH HER PICTURE CARVED ON THE FRONT OF IT

SET OUT ON THE LONG, STEADY, ATLANTIC SWING

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