Despite the Kipling comeback,

[Wilson Gray]

1895
the schooner ... _laid at_ this dock

1917
a steamer ... _lying at_ a pier


_lay_ has been steady kicking _lie_'s ass, over the dekkids.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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