Force their vain grief on the reluctant crowd.
The party's patron, sorely sighing, cried,
"Why would you urge me? I at first denied."
Fiercely they answer'd, "Why will you complain,
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"Who saw no danger, or was warn'd in vain?"
A few essay'd the troubled soul to calm;
But dread prevail'd, and anguish and alarm.
Now rose the water through the lessening sand,
And they seem'd sinking while they yet could stand;