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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
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And see the white men's moving home, unfurls her swelling sails,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 Various
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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Our damage in the engagement was not much; one man slightly wounded by a splinter, two more by a piece accidentally going off after the fight, upwards of 20 shot in our sails,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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Soon I found myself the owner of vast houses, wares, and sails,
Stories in Verse Henry Abbey
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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
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And a creaking of oars, and a sound like the wind in sails,
The Wings of Love 1922
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They are on the plaster itself -- a sort of exquisite fresco -- and Venice sails,
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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Braver than sea-going ships with the dawn in their sails,
Perpetual Light : a memorial William Rose Ben��t 1918
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Forgetting to oar with wings, they furl their sails,
On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus 1910
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