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[sebastian]

so lifted the keel of that ship, and in her wake
an indigo wave hissed and roiled
as she ran straight ahead. not even a falcon,
lord of the skies, could have matched her pace,
so light her course as she cut through the waves,
bearing a man with a mind like the gods',
a man who had suffered deep in his heart,
enduring men's wars and the bitter sea --
but now he slept, his sorrows forgotten.

- the odyssey (13.86-94)