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Wednesday, 5 August 2020

FROM MY STUDY WINDOW LOOKING EAST #1 (SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT)



Early evening and as the rising moon lights the sea, a ship sails northward … Longfellow's poem about ships that pass in the night comes to mind.

from Tales of a Wayside Inn:

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863)

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