StoryTitle("caps", "Shorten Sail") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love thy country, wish it well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not with too intense a care;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis enough that, when it fell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou its ruin didst not share.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Envy's censure, Flattery's praise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With unmoved indifference view:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Learn to tread Life's dangerous maze", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With unerring Virtue's clue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Void of strong desire and fear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Life's wide ocean trust no more; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strive thy little bark to steer", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the tide, but near the shore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus prepared, thy shorten'd sail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall, whene'er the winds increase,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seizing each propitious gale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Waft thee to the port of Peace.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keep thy conscience from offence", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tempestuous passions free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So, when thou art call'd from hence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Easy shall thy passage be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Easy shall thy passage be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cheerful thy allotted stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Short the account 'twixt God and thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hope shall meet thee on thy way.", "") ?>
Poet("George Bubb Dodington,
Lord Melcombe", "1691?–1762") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>