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

— William Falconer The Shipwreck (1762)

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

The Shipwreck (1762)

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.

The Shipwreck (1762)

With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

The Shipwreck (1762)

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.

The Shipwreck (1762)

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