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Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba

by James Joyce

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I heard their young hearts crying Loveward above the glancing oar And heard the prairie grasses sighing: No more, return no more!

O hearts, O sighing grasses, Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn! No more will the wild wind that passes Return, no more return.

Trieste, 1912

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