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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still, |
Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of moss-
bonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
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The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the
beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
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The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore, |
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-
deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
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The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them, |
Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the
water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
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