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Friday, January 3, 2003

Puritans Comments

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Sidling upon the river, the white boat
Has volleyed with its cannon all the morning,
Shaken the shore towns like a Judgment warning,
Telling the palsied water its demand
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Richard Wilbur

river murder warning

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Dr Antony Theodore 07 January 2020

But none of them would wish the murder found, Nor wish in other manner to atone Than booming at their midnight crime, which lies Rotting the river, weighted with a stone. very fine poem. tony

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