The shuddering seas and foams along the main;

And her eased breath, when her wild race is run,

Roars thro’ her nostrils like a hurricane.

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A thousand times hath in my heart’s behoof

My tongue been set his passion to impart;

A thousand times hath my too coward heart

My mouth reclosed and fix’d it to the roof;

Then with such cunning hath it held aloof,

A thousand times kept silence with such art