Black Sailors

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    Let the Brazos
    Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
    Cinder of ice! The MaraƱon is too tepid, we must
    Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
    Congeals nicely.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)