He sent it to his aunt, and she, aunt-like, was so pleased with it that she sent it to a paper! There I read it, and I thought it so good and so true that I cut it out. Here are the verses I like best. But I like them all.
“On the flagship’s bridge a man
Takes a long and quiet scan
Of a certain bit of coastline lying east,
Vaterland.
And it’s him who has to think
How to get your food and drink
And likewise how to save you from
‘The Beast.’
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