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Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodie ...
Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond c ...
In the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
When the rock was hid by the surges' swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell,
...
One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell,
The Devil below was ringing his knell.
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Dizzily down the abyss he wheels--
So fell Darius. Upon his crown,
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts ...
Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
And hear a cry from a reeling deck!
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