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What remains is a travel fragment, measuring distance not in miles but in seven steps across whole seas.

Even as a fragment, it keeps a compact epic quality. The phrase "SOME SEVEN STEPS" shrinks vast movement into human scale, which makes the crossing feel both impossible and intimate.

A three-line all-caps fragment that distills the meadow-and-sea boasting of the surrounding pages into one gesture: 'AND I HAVE WALKED / SOME SEVEN STEPS / ACROSS THE SEAS.' The number 'SEVEN STEPS' shrinks oceanic distance to a few paces, so the crossing reads as both mythic and oddly modest - epic scale walked at human scale.