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  • Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

    - Matthew Arnold
      The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.4^7.

  • Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.

    - George Herbert
    'The Pulley', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

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