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My decks are all of Deep Disgrace,
  My compass Discontent;
And Peril is my Northern Pole,
  And Death my Orient.

My sailors are my Sorrowing Thoughts,
  The boatswain, Bitter Sense;
The master, Misery; his mate
  Is Doleful Diligence.

Sir W. H.