He shunn'd the blow—"Ah! strike me not again."
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Thus was he found: the master of a hoy
Saw the sad wretch, whom he had known a boy
At first in doubt; but Frederick laid aside
All shame, and humbly for his aid applied.
He, tamed and smitten with the storms gone by,
Look'd for compassion through one living eye,
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And stretch'd th' unpalsied hand; the seaman felt