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The Mighty Neptune's Daughters
may fill a Sea with rage,
when we venture on Their waters,
to fill one human history page.
"You shall write no lines today.
We shall host no knaves.
Today We send your boats astray.
Your oars dropped careless on Our waves.*
Return your vessels to safe harbors.
Head ye back to shore.
Look out to sea with more of Wonder,**
before you venture out once more."
*a "lift" from Emily Dickinson, "A Word dropped careless on a Page"
**Aristotle (somewhere in the Metaphysics) thought that Philosophy begins in wonder. Wonder is some thing children do quite well. It comes natural to them. Also, from Plato's dialog, Theaetetus,(Plato, Theaetetus 155c-d, tr. Jowett) "SOCRATES: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher; for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder"
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