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<h2>1</h2>

<p>
	<strong>Bless England!</strong>
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<p><b>Bless England</b> <em>for its ships</em> <span>which switchback on <b>Blue, Green and Red</b> <b>seas</b> all around the <b>Pink earth-ball</b>,</span> <b>big bets on each.</b></p>
<p>
	<strong>Bless all seafarers.</strong>
</p>
<p><b>They</b> exchange not one <b>land</b> for another, but one <b>element</b> for <b>another</b>. The <b>more</b> against the <b>less abstract</b>.</p>
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<p><strong>Bless</strong> the vast planetary abstraction of the <b>ocean.</b></p>
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<p><strong>Bless</strong> the Arabs of the <b>Atlantic.</b></p>
<p>This island must be contrasted with the bleak waves.</p>
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<p>
	<strong>Bless all ports.</strong>
</p>
<div>
	<p><b>Ports, restless machines</b> of</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<p>scooped out basins</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>heavy insect dredgers</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>monotonous cranes</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>stations</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>lighthouses, blazing through the frosty starlight, cutting the storm like a cake</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>beaks of infant boats, side by side</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>heavy chaos of wharves,</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>steep walls of factories</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>womanly town</p>
		</li>
	</ul>
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<p><strong>Bless</strong> these <b>machines</b> that work the little boats across clean liquid space, in beelines.</p>
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	<p><strong>Bless</strong> the great <b>ports</b></p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<p>Hull</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Liverpool</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>London</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Newcastle-on-Tyne</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Bristol</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Glasgow</p>
		</li>
	</ul>
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<p><strong>Bless England,</strong> <span>industrial island machine, pyramidal workshop, its apex at Shetland, discharging itself on the sea.</span></p>
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	<p>
		<strong>Bless</strong>
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<p>cold</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>magnanimous</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>delicate</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>gauche</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>fanciful</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>stupid</p>
		</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
		<b>Englishmen.</b>
	</p>
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