Quote#Nature
Richer am I than he who owns
Quote byLucy Larcom · 1824–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Strip of Blue (1870).
English (original)
Richer am I than he who owns Great fleets and argosies; I have a share in every ship Won by the inland breeze, To loiter on yon airy road Above the apple-trees. I freight them with my untold dreams; Each bears my own picked crew; And nobler cargoes wait for them Than ever India knew, — My ships that sail into the East Across that outlet blue.
— Lucy Larcom
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