Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...waves that sink upon its bosom dreamily...
...Sink to rest the vesper echoes...
...Sink before my wondering eyes...
...Sink, but are they lost forever...
...races last summer, for it implies that an intercollegiate regatta is not a contest in some honest work; and the last clause shows his implicit belief that Saratoga society is made up of gamblers and blacklegs, who prey upon the unsuspecting and guileless youth that are drawn to that "sink of iniquity" by the regatta. Therefore, he thinks that his "free-born Vermonters" - who would never go astray of their own free-will and accord, but who might be compelled by the evil associations of the place to depart from the straight path of virtue - had better stay away from...