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This laboring vast, Tellurian Galleon, / Riding at anchor off the orient sun, / Had broken its cable, and stood out to space. FRANCIS THOMPSON.
Galleon, ahoy, ahoy! / Old earth riding off the sun, / And straining at your cable as you ride / On the tide, / Battered laboring and vast, / In the blast / Of the hurricane that blows between the worlds, / Ahoy!