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Now all you on down beds fporting,
Fondly lock'd in beauty's arms, Freih enjoyments, wanton courting,
Safe from all but love's alarms : Round us roars the tempeft wider,
Think what fear our mind enthrals, Harder yet, it yet blows harder,
Now a^ain the boatfwain calls.
The topfail -yards point to the wind, boys,
See all clear to reef each courfe, Let the forefheets go, don't mind, boys,
Tho' the weather fhou'd be worfe : Fore and aft the fpritfail y<*rd get,
Reef the mizen, fee all clear, Hands up, each preventer brace fet,
Man the fore-yard, cheer Ltds, cheer.
Now the dreadful thunder's roaring,
Peal on peal contending clafh, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring,
In our eyes blue lightnings flalh : One wide water all around us,
All above us one black fkv, Different deaths at once furround us,
Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ?
The foremaft's gone ! cries every tongue out,
O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck,' A leak beneath the cheft-trees fprung out,
Call all hands to clear the wreck. " Quick, the landyard, cut to pieces,
Come my hearts be flout and bold, Plumb the well, the leak increafes,
Four feet water's m the hold.
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