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taken off | taken off [[crossed out: removed from]] its shelf sometimes and laid open | ||
removed from its shelf sometimes and laid open | |||
on the floor for the children to look at. On each | on the floor for the children to look at. On each | ||
page appeared the | page appeared the in color picture of a famous vessel | ||
complete with sails and rigging, sailors hoisting | complete with sails and rigging, sailors [crossed out: men hoisting] | ||
standing on the deck or climbing the | standing on the deck or climbing the masts, | ||
flags and pennants fluttering in a smart | flags and pennants fluttering in a smart | ||
breeze. Each stupendous hull glided onward | breeze. Each [[crossed out: These]] stupendous hull glided onward | ||
over immeasurable depths | over immeasurable depths [[?]] tightly in sunny cobalt | ||
or | or cleaved the wild waves with her lofty | ||
prow plunging into dark, sickening | prow plunged [[crossed out: plunging]]into dark, sickening | ||
chasms under | chasms under raging storms. You turned | ||
the page and there was a different one | the page and there was a different one riding | ||
the ocean in some impressive kind of | the ocean in some impressive kind of weather, | ||
her long bowspit pointing toward danger, | |||
victory or shipwreck in the lonely distance. If it | victory or shipwreck in the lonely distance. If it | ||
was all | was all too vast and terrible, you could turn | ||
the page again. So passed the | the page again. So passed the Monitor & Merrimac. | ||
But there was one page which was | But there was one page which was | ||
so shocking that it had to be forestalled | [[crossed out: the]] so shocking that it had to be forestalled | ||
by | by learning the pages which went before & | ||
after, so that | after, so that it could never conquer its terrible | ||
Latest revision as of 03:15, 25 November 2022
taken off crossed out: removed from its shelf sometimes and laid open on the floor for the children to look at. On each page appeared the in color picture of a famous vessel complete with sails and rigging, sailors [crossed out: men hoisting] standing on the deck or climbing the masts, flags and pennants fluttering in a smart breeze. Each crossed out: These stupendous hull glided onward over immeasurable depths ? tightly in sunny cobalt or cleaved the wild waves with her lofty prow plunged crossed out: plunginginto dark, sickening chasms under raging storms. You turned the page and there was a different one riding the ocean in some impressive kind of weather, her long bowspit pointing toward danger, victory or shipwreck in the lonely distance. If it was all too vast and terrible, you could turn the page again. So passed the Monitor & Merrimac.
But there was one page which was
crossed out: the so shocking that it had to be forestalled by learning the pages which went before & after, so that it could never conquer its terrible