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73 anecdotal evidence Love, love, how can you Keep us locked against Each other, two hearts Caught in a fast freeze, A press that closes off Even the light hard wrung From the wintry warp of darkness? I’ve heard how the sea-struck Terror, Its sails short-winded, had docked In the polar floes, the ice Spliced so tight it stove The bow in, buckled the deck And the bulkheads, and made Timbers weep with turpentine— And how, when summer broke The cold’s blockade, this ship Set its course across The crippled waters, seams Sprung at the bilge line, canvas Aglare in the gales and calm, Heaving its warm way home. ...

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