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…showed last 75 words of 1365 total…rural economy of people attached to land to an urban economy of people toiling in trade and manufacturing. Masefield comments on the passing of time through the description of three cargo-laden ships from three different periods of history. The beauty and romance of the past founder against the grimy industrial present in the last stanza. The poems quoted and referred to show verse more restrained and a very skillful discipleship of other older cunning artists.