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... immortal by missing a boat . It was quite an important boat to miss . For it was The City of Portland , and it was her last voyage . She went out into a Thanksgiving season snowstorm in all her plush carpets and gingerbread elegance and ...
... immortal by missing a boat . It was quite an important boat to miss . For it was The City of Portland , and it was her last voyage . She went out into a Thanksgiving season snowstorm in all her plush carpets and gingerbread elegance and ...
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... immortal poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday afternoons during the last century small Americans in the sawed - off pants of their fathers have stood up and declaimed the Elegy ...
... immortal poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday afternoons during the last century small Americans in the sawed - off pants of their fathers have stood up and declaimed the Elegy ...
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