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Question: I need to turn this paragraph into something that looks like it was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge!. Help!?
Fortunately, nothing can deface the beauty of a ship!. That sense of a dungeon, that sense of a horrible and degrading misfortune overtaking a creature fair to see and safe to trust, attaches only to ships moored in the docks of great European ports!. You feel that they are dishonestly locked up, to be hunted about from wharf to wharf on a dark, greasy, square pool of black water as a brutal reward at the end of a faithful voyage!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I met a mariner on the strand
a craggy ancient tar
he spoke of voyages to foreign lands
across the ocean far

"A ship is a horrible, beautiful beast,"
The sailor muttered low
"And into its dank and fetid maw
"Every sailor longs to go"

"You may speak of your fairest maid
"Of green hills and fields of gold
"But they pale before the meanest ship
"E'en when she's grown old"

"To battle home through storm and calm
"Your ship a trusty steed
"T'will break your heart to see her left
"Without a care or heed"

"Her timbers rot, her keel gone soft
"Her hold a dungeon foul
"'Tis 'nuff to make old sailors weep
"And cry a silent howl"

"But stand before the rankest hulk
"After a lifetime on the sea
"And her beauty still shines through"
The old sailor said to meWww@QuestionHome@Com