The Year of Wonders.
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31.
Nor wholly lost we so deserv'd a Prey;
For Storms, repenting, part of it restor'd:
Which, as a Tribute from the Baltick Sea,
The British Ocean sent her mighty Lord.
Nor wholly lost we so deserv'd a Prey;
For Storms, repenting, part of it restor'd:
Which, as a Tribute from the Baltick Sea,
The British Ocean sent her mighty Lord.
32.
Go, Mortals, now, and vex yourselves in vain
For Wealth, which so uncertainly must come:
When what was brought so far, and with such pain,
Was only kept to lose it nearer home.
Go, Mortals, now, and vex yourselves in vain
For Wealth, which so uncertainly must come:
When what was brought so far, and with such pain,
Was only kept to lose it nearer home.
33.
The Son, who twice three months on th' ocean tost,
Prepar'd to tell what he had pass'd before,
Now sees in English ships the Holland Coast,
And Parents Arms, in vain, stretcht from the Shore.
The Son, who twice three months on th' ocean tost,
Prepar'd to tell what he had pass'd before,
Now sees in English ships the Holland Coast,
And Parents Arms, in vain, stretcht from the Shore.
34.
This careful Husband had been long away,
Whom his chaste Wife and little Children mourn;
Who on their fingers learn'd to tell the day
On which their Father promis'd to return.
This careful Husband had been long away,
Whom his chaste Wife and little Children mourn;
Who on their fingers learn'd to tell the day
On which their Father promis'd to return.
35. Such
