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The Sea-King

A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg
Bigg, J. Stanyan (1828-1865)
  
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III

Then through his doubting soul,
Strange thoughts, and speculations roll,
When glancing back on his past history;
And to his inward eye
Appear again the raging sea,
The ship, the men, their destiny,
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That man of wonder, and the threatening sky.
And then the Maël-Strom and his passage down;
The dreadful waters whirling high;
Their fearful frown;
And his own gradual stupor; and the cry
That roused him from it;—to his inward sense
Were vividly revealed, as with a light intense.
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