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  • Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'The Lotos^Easters', Choric Song, stanza 8, l.171^3.

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