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“When the rock was hid by the surges swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell,
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And blessd the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
—Robert Southey (17741843)
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the big canoe of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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