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Prelude To An Odyssey

Splashing, thrashing, wildly bashing
     rages the rolling sea 
like half-tortured Poseidon drowned 
     in waves of misery!

In tempestuous, dark dead of night, 
     a vessel from afar
plows through by dim, faint, speckled glow 
     of north's Polaris star...

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