Tin Fish

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Tin Fish by Rudyard Kipling

 The ships destroy us above
 And ensnare us beneath.
We arise, we lie down, and we
 In the belly of Death.

The ships have a thousand eyes
 To mark where we come . . .
But the mirth of a seaport dies
 When our blow gets home.

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