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Quotes from The Shipwreck — William Falconer

d. 1769 Scotland

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High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.

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The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.

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Thou living ray of intellectual fire.

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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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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Falconer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.