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From the 1948 John Wayne movie, “Wake of the Red Witch”

based on the novel by Garland Roark
(and slightly paraphrased by Tor)

 

She’s more than a ship.
She’s a home, the world, a breathing thing.
Nothing holds her back.
The wind takes her and carries her for 10,000 miles.
Every one of these you're free.
It's like being a bird; instead of the sky, it's the sea.
You have a whole empire of freedom; sea freedom.
You are alive the same way the ship's alive.
You run before the wind and you never want to stop!

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