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No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was still as she could be;

Robert Southey

Robert Southey (1774–1843), British poet, critic. The Inchcape Rock (l. 1–2). . .

Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press.

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