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Stanza 19

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They walked the water’s vasty breadth of blue, parting the restless billows on their way; fair favouring breezes breathèd soft and true, the bellying canvas bulging in their play:

The seas were sprent with foam of creamy hue, flashing where’er the Prows wide open lay the sacred spaces of that ocean-plain where Proteus’ cattle cleave his own domain:

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