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So, d'ye see my boys, as I said before I began my yarn, that danger makes friends. "'Tis said we vent'rous die hard, When we leave the shore, Our friends may mourn, lest we return To bless their sight no more. But this is all a notion Bold Jack can't understand; Some die upon the ocean. And some die upon dry land."
Ah! cease, too vent'rous, cease to dare; In thine, our dearer safety spare. From him, ye cruel falcons stray; And turn, ye fowlers, far away, All-giving Pow'r, great source of life, Oh! hear the parent, hear the wife: That life thou lendest from above, Though little, make it large in love.
Nay, to go no farther, what is become of the ancient poems of our own countrymen?" "Such as the Fauns and rustic Bards compos'd, When none the rocks of poetry had cross'd, Nor wish'd to form his style by rules of art, Before this vent'rous man: &c. "Old Ennius here speaks of himself; nor does he carry his boast beyond the bounds of truth: the case being really as he describes it.
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