Trucks. The summits of the masts.
Upper topsail. The third square sail from the deck on the masts of square-rigged ships.
Yards. The steel or wooden spars (placed across masts) from which square sails are set.
BIOGRAPHY
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts
Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,
And long before this wandering flesh is rotten
The dates which made me will be all forgotten;
And none will know the gleam there used to be
About the feast days freshly kept by me,