His vessel having need of some repairs,
He shaped his course to where his daughter fair
Continued still her hospitable cares;
But that part of the coast being shoal and bare,
And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile,
His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
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And there he went ashore without delay,
Having no custom-house nor quarantine
To ask him awkward questions on the way,