JOY! shipmate-joy!
(Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closed-our life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last-she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore;
Joy! shipmate-joy!
(Walt Whitman)
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