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O God! have mercy in this dreadful hour On the poor mariner! in comfort here Safe shelter’d as I am, I almost fear The blast that rages with resistless power. What were it now to toss upon the waves— The madden’d waves, and know no succour near; The howling of the storm alone to hear, And the wild sea that to the tempest raves; To gaze amid the horrors of the night, And only see the billows’ gleaming light; And in the dread of death to think of her Who, as she listens sleepless to the gale, Puts up a silent prayer and waxes pale? O God! have mercy on the mariner!
O God! have mercy in this dreadful hour On the poor mariner! in comfort here Safe shelter’d as I am, I almost fear The blast that rages with resistless power. What were it now to toss upon the waves— The madden’d waves, and know no succour near; The howling of the storm alone to hear, And the wild sea that to the tempest raves; To gaze amid the horrors of the night, And only see the billows’ gleaming light; And in the dread of death to think of her Who, as she listens sleepless to the gale, Puts up a silent prayer and waxes pale? O God! have mercy on the mariner!
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Robert Southey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 572 · printed citation: Southey · subject: STORM
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