And I saw another ship come through the harbour, clothed in splendour: and a mast was upon its quarters, and its sails guiding its motley crew through troubled distant waters: and it had come from the land flowing with milk and honey: and the seas cried to the breaking up of waves on the sea-shore, and from one blast of God's breath of life the ship floated by. And when the floatilla of other ships had observed her beauty, I was about to speak: and I heard an inner voice say unto me:
"Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life, and gaze upon my beauty!"
And the ship which I saw float upon the sea and upon troubled waters, and protected its peoples was gone from my sight...
(c) 2005 copyright Daniele Luciano Moskal
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