Teacher,

How quick the winds in Java

How blunt the blows

And how deep the sea that closed your body round

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Burnished in naught but a shield

Impervious to so much of their poison.

And to fear- in the end

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Blow a kiss to the line

Double back over legs that brought and lost you freedom

And return to the melody of the night-

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For not a man could say where you are now

In Body or Soul.

Joyfully- Finally-

Lost