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he son, who, twice three months on th’ oceantoss'd,Prepared to tell what he had pass’d before, 1Now sees in English ships the Holland coast,And parents’ arms, in vain, stretch’d from thoshore.XXXIV.This careful husband had been long away,Whom his chaste wife and little childrenmourn ;Who on their fingers learn’d to tell the day 1On which their father promised to return.
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