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The glory of ships is an old, old song, / since the days when the sea-rovers ran, / In their open boats through the roaring surf, / and the spread of the world began; / The glory of ships is a light on the sea, / and a star in the story of man.
When Homer sang of the galleys of Greece / that conquered the Trojan shore, / And Solomon lauded the barks of Tyre / that brought great wealth to his door, / 'Twas little they knew, those ancient men, / what would come of the sail and the oar.