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But yet nature has an awkward way of mocking at our impossibilities; and it may be that green-haired maidens with oary tails lurk in the ocean caves, and keep mirrors and combs upon their rocky shelves.

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Then, as now, ‘the sooty hulk steered sluggish on,’ while ‘The splendid barge Row’d, regular, to harmony; around, The boat, light-skimming, stretched its oary wings.’

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You must not think me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's Imitations: ——The Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet.—B.

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In one place it is known as "Cam a teerie arrie ma torry;" in another, "Come a theory, oary mathorie;" in yet another, "Come a theerie, Come a thorie;" or it may be, as in Perthshire, "My theerie and my thorie."

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Deliver’d to a voluntary fall, Fast by those beams I dash’d into the flood, And seated on them both, with oary palms Impell’d them; nor the Sire of Gods and men 520 Permitted Scylla to discern me more, Else had I perish’d by her fangs at last.

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