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Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell\'d with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o\'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir\'d, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.