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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
Biographer
Historian
Poet
Politician
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Southey
Flirting
Homeward
Comes
Breeze
Watery
Play
Gallant
Way
Drives
Swelling
Sail
Sails
Ship
Gale
Length
Majestic
Ships
Ripple
Gales
Along

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