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To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
 Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
 In the gay woods and in the golden air,
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 Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
 In the gay woods and in the golden air,
  Like to a good old age released from care,
   Journeying, in long serenity, away.
    In such a bright, late quiet, would that I
     Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
      And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
       And music of kind voices ever nigh;
        And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
         Pass silently from men as thou dost pass. 
 When the stormy winds do blow;
 When the battle rages loud and long,
  And the stormy winds read more 
 When the stormy winds do blow;
 When the battle rages loud and long,
  And the stormy winds do blow. 
 A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
 [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]  
 A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
 [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] 
 Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind!
 Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!
  Blow, that thy force I may read more 
 Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind!
 Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!
  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,
   While all my thoughts congeal to verse! 
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity.  
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity. 
 The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an 
uncomfortable sensation now and then read more 
 The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an 
uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in 
the east. 
 An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
 The blower of which blast is she.  
 An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
 The blower of which blast is she. 
 A breeze came wandering from the sky,
 Light as the whispers of a dream;
  He put the read more 
 A breeze came wandering from the sky,
 Light as the whispers of a dream;
  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,
   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,
    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,
     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.