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 While oʻer the wild waves? beating

we for wives or children mour:

Alas! from hence there‘s no retreating

alas! to them there’s no return!

Still the leak is gaining on us,

both chain-pumps are choak‘d below.

Heaven have mercy here upon us,

for only that can ſave us now!

On the lee-beam is the land boys,

let the guns o‘er board be thrown;

To the pump come every hand boys,

ſee,our mizen-maſt is gone.

The leak we‘ve found it cannot pour faſt,

we‘ve lightned her a foot or more;

Up and rig a jury fore-maſt;

ſhe rights, ſhe rights boys wear off ſhore.

Now once more on joys wer‘e thinking,

ſince kind fortune‘s fav‘d our lives;

Come, the can boys let‘s be drinking,

to our ſweethearts and our wives:

Fill it up—about ſhip wheel-it,

cloſe to the lips the brimmer join;

Where‘s the tempeſt now? who feels it?

none—our danger‘s drown‘d in wine.