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To access the full text of Professional Boatbuilder or Yachting:
"Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807.