I could but see them–against the lamplight–pass
Like coloured shadows, thinner than filmy glass …
fainter than the wave’s faint light,
That broke to phosphorus out in the night

“Fragment”
Rupert Brooke

[This image is a recent addition to my Card Games series. The women’s names are Janey, Mary, Janet, and Agnes. They were photographed by I. U. Doust, of Syracuse, New York at least 100 years ago. The SS Cleveland, a MARAD C5-S-75A‒type breakbulk cargo ship, was the last of its kind in revenue service. I photographed the ship in 2005 as it arrived in Galveston.]