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THE SEA-GOING BARK, by                    
First Line: Shall I loose my dusky little coracle
Last Line: When my struggling bark the billows cumber
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Culennain, Cormac


Shall I loose my dusky little coracle
On the glorious, deep, wide-bosomed ocean?
Shall I face, O Heaven's bright King and Oracle,
Of my own free will the salt commotion?

Whether narrow in Thy sight or wide it be,
Served by few or by a host in number,
O my God, wilt Thou Thyself beside it be,
When my struggling bark the billows cumber





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