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Build me straight. O worthy Master! / Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, / That shall laugh at all disaster / And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! / _Longfellow._
He was an old man with that indefinable courtliness of bearing that is of a past generation; tall and spare he was, his white head bowed a little by weight of years, but almost with my first glance I seemed to recognise him instinctively for that "worthy Master Builder of goodly vessels staunch and strong! " So the Master Builder I will call him.