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RESIGNATION: PART 1: SEASCAPE by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)

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First Line: BUT THOUGH FULL NOBLE IS MY THEME
Last Line: DEAD BARDS STENCH EVERY COAST.
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;
BUT though full noble is my theme,
Full urgent is my call
To soften sorrow, and forbid
The bursting tear to fall:

The task I dread; dare I to leave
Of humble prose the shore,
And put to sea? a dangerous sea?
What throngs have sunk before!

How proud the poet's billow swells!
The God! the God! his boast:
A boast how vain! What wrecks abound!
Dead bards stench every coast.



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