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by Unknown

Went sounding like a flail:

And Goody Cole at cock crow

Came forth from Ipswich jail.

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THE WORSHIP OF NATURE.

HE ocean looketh up to heaven,

As ’twere a living thing;

The homage of its waves is given

In ceaseless worshiping.