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SINK OR SWIM.
The ship was wreck'd, and struggling with the Ocean's angry tide,To a broken spar were clinging wife and husband, side by side;
Said he, “This awful moment, love, our last may chance to be,
Have you always, dearest, always been a faithful wife to me?”
“Ah! what,” quoth she, “our fate may be, we neither of us know,
But that secret, sink or swim, love, to the grave with me must go.”
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