Poem by Herman Melville

Old Counsel

Of The Young Master of 
a Wrecked California Clipper

Come out of the Golden Gate,
  Go round the Horn with streamers,
Carry royals early and late;
But, brother, be not over-elate—
All hands save ship! has startled dreamers.

1. Misgivings
2. Tom Deadlight
3. The Ravaged Villa
4. Lines Traced under an Image of Amor Threatening
5. The Aeolian Harp

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