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The Shipwreck (1762)
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The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
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With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
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Again she plunges! hark! a second shock
Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;
Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,
The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes
In wild despair; while yet another stroke
With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:
Ah Heaven!—behold her crashing ribs divide!
She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.
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High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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William Falconer
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Born:
February 21, 1732
Died:
1769
(aged 36)
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