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Kept up by relays of generations young / Never dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung; / While in sands, sounds, and seas where the storm-petrels cry, / Dropped mute around the globe, these halyard singers lie.
Short-lived the clippers for racing-cups that run, / And speeds in life's career many a lavish mother's-son.