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"If he may know which way to go,
"For she guides him smooth or grim.
"See, brother, see! how graciously
"She looketh down on him.


First Voice.

"But why drives on that ship so fast
"Without or wave or wind?

Second Voice.

"The air is cut away before,
"And closes from behind.


"Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high,
"Or we shall be belated:
"For slow and slow that ship will go,
"When the Mariners trance is abated."