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so sheath you my blade of love."
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"I only just came aboard," she replied.
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"I haven't unpacked yet."
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"With a roar I went up the companionway, dashed stern to stem,
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close-hauled the main, flogged a smile from my navigator,
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and clove us through the pastures of the squid.
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Leagues thereafter, when the moon changed phase I
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overtook myself, determined shrewdly that her Troy
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chests were secured, and vowing this time to grant the
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trull no quarter, at the second watch of night burst
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into her cubby and forgave her straight out.
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"Of the unspeakable we'll speak no further," I declared.