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Poem

ca. 1799

Source: Tate Gallery

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Love is like the [?raging Ocean]

[?Wind] that sway. its troubled motion

Womans temper ever bubbling

Man the early bark which sailing

in the unblest treacherous Sea

When Cares like Waves in fell [?succession]

Frown destruction oer his days

Orwelming [sic] . . [?crews] in [?traitrous]

Thus [?thru] life we surely tread

[?Recrant] poor or [?vainly] wise.

[?Unheed] bears [seeks inserted above] the bubble Pleasure

which. Bursts in his [?Grasp] or flies.