Poem: “Old Counsel” by Herman Melville

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Old Counsel

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Of The Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper

Come out of the Golden Gate,
    Go round the Horn with streamers,
Carry royals early and late;
But, brother, be not over-elate—
    All hands save ship! has startled dreamers.

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