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by Unknown

They knew it, though ’t was but a speck

Upon the edge of death!

Long did they marvel in the town

At God His strange decree,

That let the stalwart skipper drown

And the little child go free!

[¹] By special permission of the Author.

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ON LYNN TERRACE.[¹]