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Sailing o’er the sparkling waters, With accordant breezes favoured, Came a vessel homeward bearing, And a gladsome people on it. Sang they songs, and danced, and sported; Sadness was unknown amid them; Old, and young, and middle-agéd Were they, and of divers stations. While their pleasures were the fullest, Sero saw their joys and pondered,— Pondered with his inward spirit: “Lo! they have an idle fancy, All their thoughts are gay and heedless, p. 46And they dream not of destruction, Think not of a danger nearing, Nor will hearken to 

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