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Stanza 2 26

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Lo! with a panick fear themselves they flung in the swift-sailing barklets which they brought:

  • These high uplifted on the billows hung,
  • those deep in water diving safety sought:

Sudden from starboard and from port they sprung, by dread of visionary sights distraught; for all would rather tempt the cruel tide, for none in mercies of their foes confide.

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