Here, Sailor

Walt Whitman

   WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
   Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect
         pilot needs?
   Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
   Whom, in a little boat, putting off, and rowing, I, hailing you,
         offer.

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