The Year of Wonders.
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143.
With Cord and Canvas from rich Hamburgh sent,
His Navies molted wings he imps once more:
Tall Norway fir, their Masts in Battel spent,
And English Oak, sprung Leaks and Planks restore.
With Cord and Canvas from rich Hamburgh sent,
His Navies molted wings he imps once more:
Tall Norway fir, their Masts in Battel spent,
And English Oak, sprung Leaks and Planks restore.
144.
(r) Fervet opus: The same similitude in Virgil.All hands employ'd, (r) the Royal work grows warm,
Like labouring Bees on a long Summers day,
Some sound the Trumpet for the rest to swarm,
And some on bells of tasted Lillies play.
(r) Fervet opus: The same similitude in Virgil.All hands employ'd, (r) the Royal work grows warm,
Like labouring Bees on a long Summers day,
Some sound the Trumpet for the rest to swarm,
And some on bells of tasted Lillies play.
145.
With glewy wax some new Foundations lay
Of Virgin-combs, which from the Roof are hung:
Some arm'd within doors, upon Duty stay,
Or tend the Sick, or educate the Young.
With glewy wax some new Foundations lay
Of Virgin-combs, which from the Roof are hung:
Some arm'd within doors, upon Duty stay,
Or tend the Sick, or educate the Young.
146.
So here, some pick out Bullets from the sides,
Some drive old Okum through each Seam and Rift:
Their left-hand does the Calking-iron guide,
The rattling Mallet with the right they lift.
So here, some pick out Bullets from the sides,
Some drive old Okum through each Seam and Rift:
Their left-hand does the Calking-iron guide,
The rattling Mallet with the right they lift.
147. With
