Before my drift-wood fire I sit,
   And see, with every waif I burn,
Old dreams and fancies coloring it,
   And folly’s unlaid ghosts return.
O ships of mine, whose swift keels cleft
   The enchanted sea on which they sailed,
Are these poor fragments only left
   Of vain desires and hopes that failed?
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

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