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Weighed are the biting anchors, rising slow, while ’customed capstan-songs and shouts resound; only the foresails to the gale they throw as for the buoyèd bar the Ships are bound:

But Erycína fair, from ev’ry foe aye glad to guard and guide her Race renown’d, seen the black ambush big with deadly bane, flies from the welkin shaft-swift to the Main.

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