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Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old, / And well his work is done. / With an equal grave for lord and knave, / He buries them every one.
Then hoy and rip, with a rolling hip, / He makes for the nearest shore; / And God, who sent him a thousand ship, / Will send him a thousand more; / But some he'll save for a bleaching grave, / And shoulder them in to shore, -- / Shoulder them in, shoulder them in, / Shoulder them in to shore.