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O ship-chiefs, your ways are mysterious: they give your long training the lie;
What mandate has told you to hasten, with murderous danger so nigh?
Have you not, when peril was frowning, or welcome security smiled,
Been taught the great axiom that caution and safety are parent and child?
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Have you not, when peril was frowning, or welcome security smiled,
Been taught the great axiom that caution and safety are parent and child?
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